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THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 
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CONCERNING  SELECTIVE  SERVICE  LAW 


Sacramento,  California,  September  17,  1918 


CALIFORNIA  STATE  PRINTING  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

1918 


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Circular  Letter  No.  401.  , 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 
SACRAMENTO    • 

12  August  12,  1918. 

To  all  Local,  I)  is  I  rid,  Legal  Advisory  and 

Medical  Advisory  Hoards  and  Appeal  Agents: 

The  following  letter  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From  :  Provost  Marshal  General. 

To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject:   Registration  Upon  Extension  of  Draft  Ages. 

1.  General    Statement. 

Legislation. 

1.  It  is  anticipated  that  legislation  extending  the  present 
draft  ages  will  soon  be  enacted  by  Congress.  At  this  time, 
it  can  not  be  stated  with  exactness  what  ages  will  be  subject 
to  draft,  but  it  is  safe  to  assume  that  a  very  large  number  of 
men  will  be  required  to  register,  and  that  registration  day 
will  be  early  in  September. 

Purpose  of  this  Communication. 

2.  To  conduct  successfully  a  registration  of  the  magnitude 
which  the  forthcoming  registration  is  certain  to  attain,  re- 
quires detailed  and  extensive  preparation.  There  will  not  be 
time  for  such  preparation  after  the  passage  of  the  legislation, 
and  the  purpose  of  this  communication  is  twofold;  namely. 

(1)  To  outline  beforehand  the  plan  which  has  been 
decided  upon  for  the  accomplishment  of  the  registration, 
to  the  (^nd  that  all  concerned  may  be  advised  in  advance 
of  the  duties  which  will  devolve  upon  them;  and 

(2)  To  request  that  all  preliminary  arrangements  be 
made  ;it  once  in  order  that  the  entire  plan  may  be  com- 
pleted immediately  upon  the  passage  of  the  legislation 
and  the  receipt  of  the  regulations  promulgated  there- 
under, p 

402928 


—  2  — 

In  other  words.  11   id  desired  thai  the  machinery  for  r 
tration  be  so  perfected  thai   il   will  be  ready  to  be  pul   into, 

operation. 

Importanci  of  Complete  Readiness. 

3.  PREPARATION  FOR  THE  ANTICIPATED   REGIS 
TRATION  IS  BY  FAB  THE  MOST  IMPORTANT  WORK 
NOW  CONFRONTING  THOSE  CONNECTED  WITH  THE 
ADMINISTRATION  OF  THE  DRAFT  AND  TIIK  NECES 
SITY  FOR  COMPLETE  READINESS  AT  THE  EARLIEST 
POSSIBLE  DATE  CAN  NOT  BE  OVEREMPHASIZED. 

2.  Organization    For    Registration. 

Governors. 

4.  The  Governors  of  all  States  and  the  Commissioners  of 
the  District  of  Columbia  will  be  called  upon  to  supervise  the 
execution  of  the  registration  in  their  respective  States  and  the 
District  of  Columbia. 

5.  To  eliminate  repetition,  hereafter  the  word  "Governor" 
will  be  taken  to  include  the  Commissioners  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,  and  the  word  "State"  will  contemplate  the  inclu- 
sion of  the  District  of  Columbia. 

Adjutant  General. 

6.  The  Adjutant  General  or  Draft  Executive  in  cadi  Stale. 
acting  under  the  direction  of  the  Governor,  will,  as  hei 
fore,  be  the  central  administrative  authority  of  the  registra- 
tion system  within  the  State. 

Local  Boards. 

7.  The  Local  Boards  will  have  immediate  supervision  and 
direction  of  the  registration  within  their  respective  jurisdic- 
tions. 

8.  The  actual  registration  will  be  made  in  the  customary 
voting  precincts  in  the  jurisdiction  of  each  Local  Board,  and 
generally  speaking  in  the  places  and  in  the  manner  ordinarily 
employed  in  the  registration  of  voters.  In  the  Districl  of 
Columbia  the  registration  shall  be  made  in  the  various  police 
precincts  or  such  other  subdivisions  as  may  be  prescribed  by 
the  Commissioners  of  the  District   of  Columbia. 

9.  There  must  he  at  least  one  place  Tor  registration  in  each 
precinct. 


10.  The  Adjutant  General  or  the  Draft  Executive  in  each 
State  is  directed  to  at  once  request  each  Local  Board  to 
appoint  a  registrar  or  registrars  for  each  voting  precinct 
within  its  jurisdiction.  Where  there  is  more  than  one  regis- 
trar, one  of  them  will  be  designated  by  the  Local  Board  as 
chief  registrar,  and  where  there  is  only  one  registrar,  he  will 
perform  the  duties  of  chief  registrar  hereinafter  prescribed 
in  addition  to  those  of  registrar. 

11.  The  following  rules  will  be  observed  in  appointing  reg- 
istrars : 

(a)  For  each  probable  eighty  registrants  in  a  precinct, 
one  registrar  shall  be  appointed. 

(6)  Registrars  should  be  competent  to  do  the  clerical 
work,  must  be  citizens  of  the  United  States  and 
reside  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Local  Board 
by  which  they  are  appointed,  and  should  be  per- 
sons who  have  lived  long  enough  in  such  jurisdic- 
diction  to  be  well  acquainted  with  the  residents 
thereof. 

(c)  All  persons  are  expected  to  offer  such  services  as 

they  can  afford  in  this  patriotic  duty  without  com- 
pensation, but  when  compensation  is  claimed  by  a 
registrar,  <$-L00  may  be  paid  for  his  services.  Vol- 
unteer registrars  who  offer  their  services  free  of 
charge  may  be  appointed  and  sworn  in  such  num- 
ber as  may  be  conveniently  used  in  any  precinct. 

(d)  As  California  has  on  two  previous  occasions  con- 
ducted draft  registrations  without  cost  to  the  Na- 
tional Government,  it  is  Governor  William  D. 
Stephens'  special  pride  in  accomplishing  the  greater 
task  of  a  third  registration  through  the  unselfish 
patriotic  and  voluntary  service  of  all  concerned. 

3.   Employment    of    Interpreters. 

12.  It  was  evident  on  the  first  registration  day  that  adequate 
arrangements  in  some  jurisdictions  had  not  been  made  for 
interpreters.  It  will  be  necessary  for  Local  Boards  in  juris- 
dictions where  it  is  known  from  knowledge  of  local  conditions 
that  the  services  of  such  men  will  be  required  on  registration 
day  to  appoint  interpreters  to  act  on  that  day.  If  volunteers 
for  this  service  can  not  be  obtained,  persons  may  be  employed 


—  4  — 

for  this  service  and  compensated  as  provided  in  Section  28 
of  Registration  Regulations  No.  2.  but  it  is  hoped  that  in  this 
respect  that  California  will  make  a  similar  record  to  the  one 
of  June  5,  1917,  when  not  one  cenl  was  paid  for  this  service, 
all  interpreters  being  volunteers. 

4.   Duties    of    Officers    and    Agencies    Employed. 

Governors,  Mayors  and  County  Officers. 

13.  The  Governors,  Mayors  and  City  Clerks  of  cities  of 
30,000  population  or  over,  and  the  county  authorities  or 
officers  performing  duties  similar  to  those  of  county  authori- 
ties in  States  having  no  county  organization  (if  not  serving 
on  the  Local  Boards)  are  called  upon  to  assist  Local  Boards 
in  providing  suitable  places  for  registration,  and  to  obtain 
the  co-operation  of  the  proper  election  commissioners  and  cus- 
todians or  officers  in  charge  of  election  machinery  and  public 
buildings.  All  expenses  incurred  in  connection  with  provid- 
ing such  places  for  registration  will  be  compensated  for  by 
the  Federal  Government.  When  voting  booths  are  available. 
they  should  be  used,  together  witli  such  equipment  as  is 
usually  supplied  for  use  in  registering  voters,  and  the  same 
procedure  should  be  followed  in  providing  places  for  registra- 
tion as  is  followed  in  providing  voting,  or  registration  places 
for  county  or  city  elections.  Where  the  customary  voting 
places  are  in  private  buildings,  proprietors  should  be  requested 
to  afford  assistance  to  the  local  authorities  by  permitting  the 
use  of  such  places  for  the  purpose  of  registration.  Such  public 
officers  and  agencies  as  are  ordinarily  employed  in  transport- 
ing or  setting  up  portable  voting  booths  and  other  voting  and 
registration  material  will  be  requested  to  render  their  ass 
ance  in  transporting  and  setting  up  booths  Cor  the  purpose  of 
registration. 

Adjutant  General  or  Draft  Executive, 

14.  The  President's  Proclamation  will  tix  the  date  for  rej 
tration,   and   the    Adjutant    General    or    Draft    Executive   in 
each  Slate  will  be  required  to  notify  all  Local  Boards  of  the 

date  set,  furnish  blank  forms  and  regulations  to  the  Local 
Boards,  consolidate  returns  of  the  registration  and  make  a 
report  of  the  same  to  this  office,  and  generally  superintend  the 

registration  in  the  state.     H  will  be  his  task  to  ascertain  from 


—  5  — 

each  Local  Board  in  his  State  that  registrars  as  directed  have 
been  appointed  and  all  arrangements  completed  in  ample  time 
for  registration. 

Aid. 

15.  Local  Boards  should  be  directed  to  obtain  the  co-opera- 
tion of  political  organizations,  County  and  City  Councils  of 
National  Defense,  committees  of  public  safety  and  similar 
agencies  within  their  respective  jurisdictions  to  assist  in  bring- 
ing about  wide  publicity  in  connection  with  the  registration 
and  in  the  end  a  complete  registration  of  all  persons  liable  to 
be  registered. 

Local  Boards. 

16.  The  responsibility  for  providing  suitable  places  for 
registration  will  resl  upon  the  Local  Boards,  assisted,  as  pro- 
vided in  the  foregoing,  by  the  Governor,  the  Mayor  and  County 
Clerk  in  cities  of  30,000  population  or  over,  the  authorities  of 
the  county  or  similar  subdivision  (if  they  are  not  already 
serving  on  the  Local  Board),  and  the  Central  Registration 
Committee  in  those  jurisdictions  where  such  a  committee  has 
been  appointed. 

17.  Local  Boards  will  be  required  to  furnish  cards  to  the 
sick  and  to  the  nonresident  registrants  within  their  respective 
jurisdictions  and  to  certify  to  those  of  the  latter. 

18.  Local  Boards  will  receive  registration  cards,  certificates, 
and  other  forms  from  the  Adjutant  General  and  will  distribute 
them  among  the  chief  registrars  who  will  be  responsible  -  for 
them.  The  Boards  will  be  required  to  prepare  returns  of  the 
registration,  and  will  make  lists  of  the  persons  registered  for 
posting,  publication  and  mailing  to  this  office  and  to  the  Adju- 
tant General. 

Registrars. 

19.  Registrars  will  be  charged  in  the  first  instance  with  mak- 
ing places  ready  for  registration.  This  duty  is  to  be  per- 
formed under  the  direction  of  the  Local  Board.  They  will 
also  be  charged  with  the  duty  of  making  the  actual  registra- 
tion of  persons  within  the  voting  precincts  to  which  they  are 
appointed.  The  chief  registrar,  when  not  otherwise  engaged, 
will  likewise  make  out  registration  cards,  and  will  hold  every 


—  6  — 

person  acting  as  registrar  under  him  strictly  accountable  for 
the  cards  and  certificates  supplied  to  him.  At  the  close  of  the 
day,  the  chief  registrar  will  be  required  to  make  out  a  report 
of  the  registration  at  the  place  of  which  he  has  been  in  charge, 
and  will  deliver  the  same  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Local  Board, 
together  with  the  registration  cards  (used  and  unused)  and 
remaining  certificate 

5.   Estimates. 

20.  In  order  to  appoint  the  necessary  number  of  registrars 

and  to  make  adequate  preparations  for  registration,  it  is 
necessary  to  estimate  the  number  of  persons  to  be  registered. 
Without  information  as  to  the  age  limits,  there  is  no  exact 
basis  for  such  an  estimate.  However,  an  estimate  may  be 
made  and  preparations  consummated  on  the  basis  of  one-third 
greater  registration  than  on  June  5,  1917.  It  may  be  assumed 
that  one  and  one-third  times  as  many  persons  will  be  liable  to 
registration  as  were  registered  in  1917.  This  assumption  is 
from  a  National  standpoint  and  may  not  bo  applicable  to  an 
individual  State  or  a  Local  Board  within  the  State,  but.  as  it 
is  the  best  basis  that  can  at  this  time  be  offered,  it  is  suggested 
that  each  Adjutant  General  and  each  Local  Board  make  a 
careful  survey  and  estimate  on  such  a  basis  of  the  probable 
number  of  persons  to  be  registered  within  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  respective  Local  Boards. 

21.  Preparation  for  the  registration  of  the  probable  number 
of  registrants  under  such  an  estimate  will  be  sufficient  to  meel 
almost  any  eventuality,  inasmuch  as  the  plan  contemplates 
the  maximum  number  of  persons  likely  to  he  registered. 

22.  Appendix  Table  45,  "Report  of  the  Provosj  Marshal 
General  to  the  Secretary  of  War  on  the  First  Draft,"  should 
be  consulted  in  ascertaining  the  number  of  persons  registered 
in  1917. 

6.  Auxiliary   Organizations. 

23.  County  and   city   attorneys   will    co-operate   with   mem 
bers  of  the  Legal  Advisory  Board;  marshals,  deputy  marshals 
and  police  officers  will  render  every  assistance  in  the  execu 
lion  of  the  law;  news  agencies  and  newspapers  will  be  called 

upon  to  lend   their  assistance   in   giving   wide   publicity   to  the 

date  and  places  of  registration,  and  the  postmasters  will  he 


—  7  — 

directed  to  post  copies  of  the  proclamation  in  every  post  office 
of  the  United  States. 

7.  Special    Cases   of    Registration. 

24.  The  sick  will  be  registered  by  persons  deputized  to  make 
their  registration.  Felons  will  be  registered  by  the  warden 
of  the  penitentiaries,  and  persons  awaiting  trial  and  misde- 
meanants will  be  treated  as  absentees  except  that  their  regis- 
tration cards  will  be  obtained  and  filled  in  by  the  jailers. 

25.  Indians  will  be  registered  under  the  supervision  of  the 
Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  and  persons  residing  in  Yel- 
lowstone, Glacier  and  Mt.  Rainier  National  Parks  will  be  regis- 
tered under  the  direction  of  the  Director  of  National  Park 
Service. 

26.  All  registrants  will  be  made  subject  to  the  provisions  of 
the  Selective  Service  Regulations  unless  the  latter  would  obvi- 
ously be  inapplicable  or  subsequent  regulations  otherwise  pre- 
scribe. 

27.  Please  acknowledge  receipt  of  this  communication  by 
telegraph,  bulletin  its  contents  in  full  to  all  Local  and  District 
Boards,  and  proceed  to  have  all  arrangements  herein  outlined 
promptly  completed. 

28.  Telegraphic  instructions  No.  B-2461  having  preceded 
this  letter  of  instructions,  this  work  should  already  be  well 
under  way. 

E.  IT.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C., 
The  Adjutant  General. 


_  8  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  402. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12  August   13,   L918. 

To  'ill  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:   Fundamentals  of  the  "Work  ob  Fight"  Obdeb. 

The  following  Circular  was  issued  by  District  Board  for 
Division  \'<>.  1.  Northern  District  of  California,  and  is  so  clear 
on  the  subject  concerned  that  it  is  republished  for  the  informa- 
tion and  guidance  of  all  Local  and  District  Boards  in  the  state  : 

"The  District  Board  for  Division  1.  Northern  District  of 
California,  takes  the  liberty  of  calling  the  attention  of  the 
Local  Boards  within  its  jurisdiction  to  the  following  points 
which  it  believes  are  fundamental  to  a  correct  understanding 
of  the  'Work  or  Fight'  Order,  and  to  its  proper  enforcement. 

First:  The  primary  purpose  of  the  order  is  not  to  force 
men  with  dependents,  i.  < .,  actual  bona  fide  dependents,  into 
the  Army.  If  any  registrant  has  been  granted  deferred  cl 
iication  for  dependency  and  such  dependency  is  not  actual 
and  bona  fide,  his  deferred  classification  should  be  revoked 
on  that  ground  and  the  'Work  or  Fight'  Order  has  no  appli- 
cation to  him.  The  primary  purpose  of  the  order  is  to  :'■ 
men  who  are  properly  allowed  to  remain  at  home  becaufl 
dependents  to  go  to  work  if  they  are  idle,  or  if  they  are  at  work 
but  in  occupations  which  are  classified  as  nonproductive,  to 
force  them  to  leave  these  occupations  for  others  where  their 
services  are  more  necessary.  The  Government  does  not  wish 
men  with  real  dependents  who  will  suffer  if  they  go  into  the 
Army,  to  go  into  the  Army  nevertheless,  hut  prefers,  for  the 
present  at  least,  that  they  remain  at  home  to  support  their 
dependents,   hut    in  occupations  where  they  are  useful. 

Second:    The  order  is  to  he  enforced  always  with  refen 
to  its  primary  purpose  just  stated.     This  means,  as  the  \i 
lations  themselves  provide,  that  reasonable  opportunity  shall 
he  given  registrants  affected  by  the  order  to  find  other  Lini 
employment.     It  also  means  that  it  shall  not  he  enforces 


—  9  — 

summarily  as  to  disrupt  and  disorganize  industrial  conditions 
or  the  particular  businesses  which  may  be  affected,  unless  such 
businesses  are  in  themselves  of  a  detrimental  or  purely  useless 
character;  for  example,  the  manager  of  a  store  employing 
largely  men  of  draft  age  as  counter  salesmen  should  be  allowed 
reasonable  time  to  adjust  his  business  by  substituting  women 
or  older  men.  Such  substitution  should  be  firmly  insisted 
upon,  but  time  to  make  it  should  be  allowed. 

Third:  The  'Work  or  Fight'  Order  is  a  requirement  en- 
tirely new  to  our  people  and  until  they  become  accustomed  to 
it  and  understand  it,  and  the  necessary  adjustments  to  meet  it 
are  made,  it  should  be  enforced  with  great  care  and  conserv- 
atism. This,  however,  does  not  mean  that  it  should  not  be 
actually  enforced.  It  means  that  final  compliance  with  the 
order  should  be  insisted  upon,  but  with  time  and  opportunity 
lor  adjustment  allowed,  and  that  at  first  much  more  time  will 
be  required  than  later  on. 

Fox r(li  :  No  Local  or  District  Board  has  the  right  or  power 
to  determine  what  occupations  are  nonproductive  in  its  judg- 
ment and  to  enforce  the  order  according  to  such  determina- 
tion. The  Eegulations  specifically  enumerate  the  occupations 
which  are  to  be  considered  as  nonproductive  (see  Section 
121-K)  and  the  power  to  extend  or  limit  this  enumeration  is 
expressly  reserved  to  the  Provost  Marshal  General  (see  Sec- 
tion 121-L).  This  means,  first,  that  no  Board  has  the  power 
to  treat  as  a  productive  occupation  one  that  is  enumerated  as 
nonproductive,  and  second,  it  has  not  the  power  to  consider 
any  occupation  as  nonproductive  which  is  not  so  enumerated, 
no  matter  how  contrary  this  may  be  to  its  own  judgment. 
The  Regulations  are,  furthermore,  specific  to  the  point  that 
in  case  there  is  doubt  as  to  whether  or  not  a  particular  occupa- 
tion comes  within  one  of  the  enumerated  nonproductive  classes, 
it  shall  be  considered  that  it  does  not  come  within  such  class 
until  a  ruling  has  been  had  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General 
upon  application  to  him  in  the  usual  manner  (see  Section 
121-L). 

Fifth :  In  order  that  a  registrant  employed  in  a  nonproduc- 
tive occupation  comply  with  the  order,  it  is  not  necessary  that 
he  go  to  work  at  farming  or  in  a  shipyard,  or  in  any  other 
line  which  would  be  considered  as  a  *  necessary'  occupation 
within  the  meaning  of  the  Regulations  pertaining  to  deferred 


—  10  — 

classification  on  industrial  or  agricultural  grounds.  The  non- 
productive employments  in  which  a  man  with  dependents  can 
not  remain  are  not  Bel  over  against  the  'necessary'  employ- 
ments by  reason  of  which  a  man  without  dependents  can 
remain  and  not  be  drafted  into  the  Army.  A  man  employed 
in  a  non-productive  employment  can  comply  with  the  'Work 
or  Fight'  Order  by  going  to  work  in  any  occupation  except 
those  that  are  specifically  enumerated  as  nonproductive.  With 
this  limitation  only,  the  whole  industrial  field  is  open  to  him. 
As  an  extreme  example,  a  waiter  in  a  hotel  could  go  to  work- 
making  beds  in  the  same  hotel  and  in  so  doing  would  comply 
with  the  order.  This  will  hold  true  so  long  as  serving  as  a 
chambermaid  in  a  hotel  is  not  classed  as  a  nonproductive  em- 
ployment, and  it  is  not  so  classed  at  the  present  time.  This 
does  not  mean  that  registrants  should  not  be  encouraged  to 
go  to  work  in  'necessary'  industries  where,  of  course,  their 
services  will  contribute  in  a  greater  degree  to  the  National 
need.  The  point  is  that  no  man  is  required  to  go  into  a 
'necessary'  industry. 

Sixth :  The  excuses  for  being  engaged  in  a  nonproductive 
employment  should  not  be  overlooked.  It  is  hardly  necessa  ry  1 1  > 
speak  of  those  excuses  which  are  purely  temporary  in  nature, 
such  as  sickness,  vacations,  and  failing  to  find  suitable  employ- 
ment when  it  is  diligently  sought  after.  But  something  should 
be  said  as  to.the  more  permanent  excuse  of  compelling  domes!  ic 
circumstances  which  clo  not  permit  of  a  change  of  employment 
without  disproportionate  hardship  (see  par.  (e)  of  Section 
121-L).  (Vises  are  certain  to  be  round,  and  perhaps  no!  a  few 
of  them,  where  a  man's  family  necessities  are  such  that  lie 
can  not  change  his  employment  without  real  suffering  or  pri- 
vation on  the  part  of  his  family.  A  man  so  situated  is  not  1<> 
be  compelled  to  change  as  long  as  such  situation  exists,  which 
may  be  practically  permanently.  At  this  time  of  National  need, 
some  sacrifice  of  comfort  and  particularly  of  Luxury  may  well 
be  demanded,  but  it  is  not  contemplated  that  the  order  shall  be 
enforced  in  those  cases  where  it  would  require  more  than  this 
and  cause  real  hardship  or  suffering. 

Seventh-,  The  only  eases  <»f  deferred  classification  t<>  which 
the  order  applies,  i.e.,  in  which  deferred  classification  can  be 
canceled  because  of  failure  to  conform  to  the  order,  are  those 
wherein  deferred  classification  was  granted  on  the  ground  of 


—  11  — 

dependents.  By  the  terms  of  the  order  it  applies  only  to  men 
put  in  classes  2,  3  and  4.  (See  Sec.  121-K).  It  does  not 
apply  to  any  one  placed  in  Class  V.  In  particular  it  does 
not  apply  to  those  exempted  because  they  are  aliens,  much, 
perhaps,  as  some  of  us  would  like  to  see  it  so  applied.  The 
only  grounds  for  placing  a  man  in  classes  2,  3  or  4  are  either 
vocational  or  the  existence  of  dependents.  The  very  fact  of 
deferred  classification  being  granted  on  vocational  grounds 
means  that  the  man  is  not  engaged  in  a  nonproductive  employ- 
ment. The  order  is  therefore  limited  strictly  to  those  cases 
where  deferred  classification  is  granted  because  of  dependents. 
Eighth :  All  cases  under  the  order  that  are  passed  upon  by 
a  Local  Board,  whether  the  registrant's  deferred  classification 
is  canceled  or  not,  come  automatically  without  appeal  to  the 
District  Board.  No  appeal  is  necessary,  whether  by  the  Gov- 
ernment or  the  registrant.  As  soon  as  the  case  is  finally  de- 
cided, the  record  should  be  transmitted  to  the  District  Board. 
Of  course,  if  the  Local  Board  is  giving  the  man  time  to  find 
other  employment,  there  is  no  final  decision  until  such  time 
comes  to  an  end  and  the  Board  either  cancels  his  deferred 
classification  or  allows  it  finally  to  go  uncanceled." 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C., 

The  Adjutant  General. 


—  12  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  403. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12  August  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Subjects  of  Neutral  Countrik>. 

The  following  telegram  received  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  D.  C.,  Angus*  13,  1018. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  Calif  or  it  in. 

Number  B  twenty-six  naught  three.  Complaints  we 
being  made  to  the  State  Department  by  diplomatic  repre- 
sentatives of  Neutral  Countries  that  Subjects  of  such 
countries  are  being  involuntarily  inducted  into  the  Army 
contrary  to  telegram  number  B  nineteen  seventy-one. 
Please  advise  all  Local  Boards  thai  such  persons  must  not 
be  involuntarily  inducted  into  Army  pending  receip 
regulations  and  instructions  as  to  how  to  proceed  in  such 
cases  which  will  be  issued  within  few  da; 

(  'KOWDER. 

Telegram  number  B  nineteen  seventy-one  was  quoted  in  our 
Circular  Letter  No.  358. 


BY   DIRECTION   OF   THE   GOVERNOR. 


J.  J.  BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  13  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  404. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 
.THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 
SACRAMENTO 

12.  August  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Classification  Railroad  Employees. 

The  following  telegram  is  published  for  the  information  and 
guidance  of  all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  13,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  twenty-five  ninety-five.  The  United  States 
Railroad  Administration  protests  that  cases  of  its  em- 
ployees are  not  being  properly  disposed  of  by  Selective 
Service  Boards,  and  has  presented  eight  thousand  one 
hundred  and  seventy-seven  instances  where  employees 
whom  it  considers  necessary  and  entitled  to  deferred  classi- 
fication have  been  placed  in  Class  1.  These  cases  include 
machinists,  blacksmiths,  boilermakers,  tin  and  copper- 
smiths, pipe  fitters,  helpers  and  apprentices  of  foregoing, 
hostlers  and  enginehouse  men,  train  dispatchers  and  direc- 
tors, telegraphers,  telephone  and  block  operators,  telegraph 
clerks,  yardmasters  and  assistants,  locomotive  engineers 
and  motormen,  locomotive  firemen  and  helpers,  conductors, 
yard  foremen,  brakemen  and  section  foremen.  It  is  re- 
ported that  seven  hundred  forty-nine  machinists  who  are 
necessary  to  the  operation  of  railroads  have  been  placed 
in  Class  1.  The  President  has  said  that  railroads  are  to 
be  considered  as  industries  under  the  Selective  Service 
Regulations  and  no  argument  is  required  to  show  that  rail- 
roads are  necessary  industries.  Further  complaint  is  made 
that  District  Boards  do  not  consider  the  ever-changing  and 
restricted  conditions  which  are  constantly  enlarging  the 
class  of  skilled  labor,  and  that  certain  classes  of  workmen 
regarded  as  unskilled  a  few  years  ago  are  well  within  the 


—  14  — 

skilled  class  when  regarded  in  the  light  of  the  difficulty 
of  operating  railroads  in  the  present  emergency;  that 
many  District  Boards  in  dealing  with  the  cases  of  railroad 
operators  and  workmen  are  far  from  liberal  and  indeed 
extremely  severe  in  their  interpretations,  contractions  and 
findings.  It  appears  that  some  of  the  instances  cited  are 
meritorious,  and  since  it  rests  largely  with  the  District 
Boards  to  adjust  the  military  needs  with  the  indtu 
requirements  in  order  that  there  may  be  effective  co- 
operation between  men  in  the  battle  lines  and  their  sup- 
porters at  home,  I  urgently  recommend  that  all  Class  1 
cases  of  railroad  employees,  not  already  inducted,  be 
carefully  scrutinized  in  the  light  of  the  foregoing  and  that 
deferred  classifications  be  granted  in  accordance  with  the 
spirit  of  the  Selective  Service  Law  and  Regulations. 

Please  advise  all  Local  and  District  Boards  as  follows: 

Applications  for  reconsideration  of  cases  of  railroad 
employees  on  industrial  grounds,  when  presented  to  Local 
Boards,  should  be  received  up  to  the  day  and  hour  of 
induction  into  military  service  and  promptly  forwarded, 
together  with  the  Local  Board's  recommendation,  to  the 
District  Board  having  jurisdiction;  District  Boards  may 
directly  receive  applications  for  reconsideration  in  cases 
over  which  they  have  original  jurisdiction,  and  imme- 
diately request  from  the  proper  Local  Board  the  entire 
record  of  the  case,  and  these  applications  may  be  received 
up  to  the  day  and  hour  of  induction  into  military  service ; 
even  though  a  registrant  employed  in  railroad  work  has 
not  claimed  deferment  on  industrial  grounds  his  employers 
may  make  that  claim  either  through  the  Local  Board  or 
direct  to  the  District  Board  at  any  time  up  to  the  day  and 
hour  of  induction,  and  the  District  Board  may  grant  the 
deferred  classification.  This  is  not  to  be  interpreted  as 
requiring  Boards  to  reopen  and  reconsider  cases  cither  on 
original  or  new  evidence,  hut  authorizing  them  to  <i 
in  the  view  of  the  foregoing  statements.  It  is  realized  that 
many  jurisdictions  have  already  exhausted  their  Cl 
strength,  hut  in  these  instances  the  foregoing  should  be 
borne  in  mind  in  future  classifications.     Please  transmil 


—  15  — 

this  telegram  intact  by  bulletin  to  all  Local  and  District 
Boards  of  your  jurisdiction  and  request  prompt  acknowl- 
edgment of  its  receipt. 

(  Jrowder. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  G 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  405. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  August  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Discharge  op  Enlisted  Students. 

The  following  telegram  is  published  for  the  information  and 
guidance  of  all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  10,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  twenty-five  forty-six.  Under  special  author- 
ity of  Secretary  of  War  the  War  Department  Committee 
on  Education  and  Special  Training  was  permitted  to  en- 
list through  commissioned  officers  of  the  Army  certain 
registrants  for  special  training  in  camps  and  schools. 
Every  such  enlistment  was  for  a  limited  period  expiring 
September  16  next.  Registrants  presenting  certificates  of 
enlistment  signed  by  commissioned  officers  of  Army  should 
be  held  as  in  Class  5  until  September  16,  after  which  elate 


—  16  — 

such  classification  shall  be  cancelled  and  they  shall  be 
inducted  into  military  service;  as  their  pie-existing  class 
and  order  numbers  are  reached. 

Crowder. 
By  direction  of  thb  Governor. 

.1.  .1.  Bosses, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G. 

The  Adjutant   General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  406. 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFJCE 

SACRAMENTO 

16.  August  15,  1918 


B" 


To  all  Local  Boards: 


The  following  letter  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  .Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From:  The  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        The  Adjutant  General  of  California. 

Subject  :  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps. 

1.  Attention  is  invited  to  the  attached  correspondence 
with  respect  to  the  refusal  of  the  Local  Boards  in  Cali- 
fornia to  accept  certificates  of  enlistment  of  student 
registrants  who  have  been  enlisted  in  the  Enlisted  Reserve 
Corps  of  the  Engineers'  Department  and  the  Enlisted 
Reserve  Corps  of  the  Signal  Corps. 

2.  Your  attention  is  invited  to  the  fact  that  the  instruc- 
tions of  this  office  dated  June  14  with  ivspeet  to  the  change 

in  the  procedure  in  handling  Individual  inductions  in  no 
wise  affected  the  procedure  to  be   followed   in  respect   to 


—  17  — 

the  enlistment  of  registrants  in  the  various  Enlisted  Re- 
serve Corps.  In  other  words,  the  various  paragraphs  of 
Section  151  of  the  Selective  Service  Regulations  are  in  no 
wise  affected  by  the  letter  of  June  14,  referred  to  above. 
3.  It  is  requested  that  all  Local  Boards  be  instructed  to 
this  effect. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  407. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

16.  August  15,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From  :  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject  :  Amendments  to  Sections  151  and  157,  S.  S.  R. 

1.  In  order  to  give  an  opportunity  to  American  citizens 
abroad  to  enlist  voluntarily  in  the  American  forces  under  the 
provisions  of  the  treaty  with  Great  Britain,  ratified  by  the 
Senate  of  the  United  States  on  June  24,  1918,  the  Commanding 
General  of  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  was  author- 
ized, on  July  13,  1918,  to  establish  a  general  recruiting  service 

2—40868 


—  18  — 

in  Great  Britain  to  commence  operations  the  date  of  the  ex- 
change of  ratifications  of  conventions  between  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain,  with  respect  to  military  service. 
Ratifications  were  exchanged  on  July  30,  1918. 

2.  Section  151,  S.  S.  R..  is  therefore  amended  by  the  addition 
of  the  following : 

(i)  Citizens  of  the  United  States  in  Greal  Britain  who 
are  of  draft  age,  including  those  who  registered  in  the 
United  States  and  have  gone  abroad,  those  who  registered 
abroad  before  a  consul,  and  those  who  have  not  registered, 
may  voluntarily  enlist  in  the  Army  of  the  United  States, 
such  enlistment  to  be  made  at  such  times  and  at  such 
places  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Commanding  General, 
American  Expeditionary  Forces.  Thereafter,  upon 
presentation  by  such  registrant  to  his  Local  Board  of  a 
certificate  of  a  commissioned  officer  of  the  Army  stating 
that  he  has  been  so  enlisted,  such  certificate  shall  be  filed 
with  the  Questionnaire  and  the  registrant  shall  be  placed 
in  Class  V  on  the  ground  that  he  is  in  the  military  service 
of  the  United    States. 

■I  Section  157  is  amended  by  the  addition  of  the  following 
note: 

Section  157,  Note  1:  When  a  Local  Board  learns  that 
one  of  its  registrants  is  in  Great  Britain  or  France  it  shall, 
when  issuing  his  induction  order  (Form  1028),  place  the 
date  of  reporting  so  far  ahead  that  the  registrant  will 
have  time  to  enlist  voluntarily  with  the  American  Expedi- 
tionary Forces.  After  ;i  reasonable  time  the  Local  Hoard 
should  receive  a  certificate  indicating  that  the  registrant 
has  so  enlisted.  If  such  certificate  is  not  received  within 
a  reasonable  lime  the  Local  Board  shall  report  the  n 
frant  to  the  Adjutant  General  of  the  Army  on  Form  1018 
in  the  usual  manner.  It'  sm-h  certificate  is  received  the 
registrant  shall  he  classified  in  (lass  Y  whether  or  not  the 

date  specified   in    Form    1028  had   passed  at   the  time  <»('  the 

receipt  of  the  certificate. 

E.   II.  <  'ia>\\  DIB. 
I'.\    DIRECTION   OF  THE  Qo\  BRNOB. 

J.  J,    BOBBl 

Brigadier  General,  X.  ( I 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  19  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  409. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

fl-20.  August  15,  1918. 

To   all   Local   Boards: 

Subject  :  Instructions  to  Registrants. 

1.  This  Office  is  happy  to  announce  that  all  schools  of  in- 
struction to  be  held  by  Local  Boards  hereafter  will  have  at 
their  disposal  experts  who  will  discuss  for  the  benefit  of  regis- 
trants matters  of  personal  hygiene  and  kindred  topics. 

2.  These  men  are  thoroughly  trained  and  are  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  Local  Boards  by  the  University  of  California, 
and  if  the  Local  Boards"  will  advise  this  Office  when  they 
desire  the  assistance  of  such  men,  arrangements  will  be  made 
to  have  them  on  hand. 

3.  This  appears  to  be  an  excellent  opportunity  and  one  that 
the  Local  Boards  should  not  overlook,  as  all  of  the  University 
of  California  men  have  practical  training  along  the  lines 
covered  by  their  lectures. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  20  — 
Cicular  Letter  No.  409. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-16  August  16,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:  Classification  of  Shipbuilders. 

The  following  telegram  received  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  15,  1918. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  twenty-six  twenty-two.  Reported  to  this 
Office  that  some  Local  and  District  Boards  are  construing 
Section  152  as  preventing  registrants,  engaged  in  the 
building  of  ships  or  manufacturing  of  fittings  therefor 
under  employment  by  the  Navy  or  the  Emergency  Fleet 
Corporation  or  by  companies  under  their  supervision,  from 
claiming  or  being  granted  deferred  classification  on  indus- 
trial grounds  or  as  necessary  government  employees. 
Such  construction  is  erroneous.  Registrants  so  employed 
may  be  given  deferred  classification  on  industrial  grounds 
or  as  necessary  Government  employees,  as  the  case  may 
be,  if  claim  is  properly  presented,  and  at  same  time  may 
be  placed  on  Emergency  Fleet  classification  list  if  so  en- 
titled. Issue  instructions  to  all  Local  and  District  Boards 
to  correct  any  misunderstanding. 

Crowder. 

By   DIRECTION   OF   THE    GOVERNOR. 

J.   J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  21  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  410. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-16.  August  19,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  the  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Prom:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  in  all  States. 

Subject:  Filing  Cases. 

1.  Orders  have  been  placed  from  Washington  with 
various  filing  case  manufacturers  throughout  the  country 
for  the  necessary  cases  for  the  registration  cards  and 
questionnaires. 

2.  The  questionnaire  cases  will  be  of  steel  and  will  take 
several  months  to  obtain.  Local  Boards,  if  given  to 
understand  that  every  possible  effort  is  being  made  con- 
sistent with  the  ability  of  the  manufacturers  to  produce 
the  necessary  filing  space,  will  not  register  complaints. 
The  cases  will  be  shipped  as  rapidly  as  it  is  possible  for 
them  to  be  made. 

3.  On  the  other  hand,  it  will  be  necessary  to  provide 
temporary  filing  space  for  the  cards  and  questionnaires  as 
they  are  received.  Having  this  warning  in  mind,  Boards 
should  improvise  such  cases  and  be  prepared  to  handle  the 
problem. 

4.  Correspondence  concerning  these  matters  should  not 
be  sent  to  Washington,  and  it  will  save  Draft  Executives 
a  great  deal  of  labor  if  they  will  approach  the  problem 

.     in  ample  time  to  warn  Local  Boards  of  ensuing  delays. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General*. 
By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  22  — 

Circular  Letter  No.  411.  * 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-16.  August   r.>.  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  th<'  Office  of  the  Provost   Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 

concerned : 

From:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 

To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject:  Changes  Sections  78  and  797  S.  S.  R. 

1.  Section  78,  Rule  XI  (5),  S.  S.  R.,  has  been  amended  to 
read  as  follows: 

Section     78.      Class     IV     (continued)— Miscellaneous. 

Rule  XI.     In  Class  IV  shall  be  placed: 

(6)  Any  registrant  found  to  be  a  mariner  actually  em- 
ployed in  the  sea  service  (including  service  on  the  (Jreal 
Lakes)  of  any  citizen  or  merchant  within  the  United 
States.  The  Local  Hoard  shall  proceed  to  the  considera- 
tion of  a  claim  for  such  classification  in  respect  of  any 
registrant  when  made  in  the  usual  manner  in  the  ques- 
tionnaire, and  shall  grant  such  classification  it'  satisfied 
from  the  evidence  submitted  that  the  registrant  is  entitled 
thereto.  A  registrant  whose  regular  vocation  is  that  of  a 
mariner  in  the  sea  service  (including  service  on  the  Great 
Lakes  of  a   citizen  or  merchant    within  the   United   States. 

hut  who  is  temporarily  unemployed  by  reason  of  his  dis- 
charge From  one  voyage  and  his  necessary  delay  in  signing 
for  another   voyage  shall    he   entitled   to  classification 

•   mariner  actually  employed;  provided,  however,  any  regis- 
trant  who  is  so  classified  and  remains  unemployed  tor 

more  than  twenty  consecutive  days  shall  show  cause  to  the 

Local  Hoard  having  jurisdiction  why  his  classification  as 

a  mariner  should  not   he  changed. 


—  23  — 

Note  1. — In  the  case  of  a  mariner  on  the  Great  Lakes, 
the  fact  that  his  employment  is  interrupted  by  the  closing 
of  navigation  owing  to  climatic  conditions  does  not  pre- 
vent his  deferred  classification  on  the  ground  of  being  a 
mariner  actually  employed  in  the  sea  service  of  a  citizen 
or  merchant  within  the  United  States ;  provided,  however, 
the  registrant  files  with  the  Local  Board  having  jurisdic- 
tion an  affidavit  of  his  employer  or  of  an  officer  of  the 
company  or  corporation  by  which  he  is  employed,  con- 
taining in  substance  the  statement  that  he  is  a  mariner 
who  was  actually  employed  during  the  past  season  and 
whose  employment  is  contemplated  during  the  succeeding 
season. 

2.  In  view  of  the  foregoing  amendment  to  Section  78, 
S.  S.  R.,  a  registrant  who  claims  deferred  classification  as  a 
mariner  is  not  required  to  obtain  and  file  the  affidavits  pre- 
scribed by  the  instructions  for  answering  Series  VIII  (Part  B)' 
of  the  questionnaire,  and  the  last  sentence  of  such  instructions 
is  hereby  rescinded. 

3.  Section  79,  S.  S.  R.,  has  been  amended  by  the  addition  of 
the  following  footnote : 

Note  7. — In  the  case  of  a  pilot  on  the  Great  Lakes,  the 
fact  that  his  employment  is  interrupted  by  the  closing  of 
navigation  owing  to  climatic  conditions  does  not  prevent 
iiis  deferred  classification  on  the  ground  of  being  a  licensed 
pilot  actually  employed  in  the  pursuit  of  his  vocation; 
provided,  however,  the  registrant  files  with  the  Local 
Board  having  jurisdiction  an  affidavit  of  his  employer  or 
of  an  officer  of  the  company  or  corporation  by  which  he 
is  employed,  containing  in  substance  the  statement  that 
he  is  a  licensed  pilot  and  was  regularly  employed  during 
the  past  season  and  that  his  employment  is  contemplated 
for  the  succeeding  season. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C., 
The  Adjutant  General. 


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Circular  Letter  No.  412. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

18.      '  ,  August  1!).  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Emergency  Fleet. 
The  following  communication  is  indicative  of  the  co-opera- 
tion that  the  Emergency  Fleet  Corporation  extends  to  Local 
Boards.  All  Boards  are  earnestly  requested  to  comply  with 
the  requests,  as  it  is  believed  that  this  will  net  many  men  to 
your  Class  1  list  and  eventually  solve  all  questions  concerning 
the  slacker  who  is  hiding  behind  the  Emergency  Fleet  Corpo- 
ration bulwark. 

August  15,  1918. 
To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  Branch  Office  of  Deferments  and   Transfers   for 
California  has  been  trying  to  release  from  the  shipyards 

as  many  as  possible  of  the  Class  1  men  who  are  physically 
qualified  for  general  military  service.  I  have  repeatedly 
urged  the  shipyards  to  notify  me  as  to  all  men  whom  they 
could  release,  and  this  office  has  conducted  invest  mat  ions 
on  its  own  part.  It  seems,  however,  that  this  work  can 
not  be  done  adequately  without  the  co-operation  of  the 
Local  Boards;  therefore,  I  request  the  assistance  of  the 
boards  so  that  we  may  have  a  complete  housecleaning  of 
the  Emergency  Fleet  List,  particularly  in  so  far  as  it 
affects  Class  1  men.  I  trust  that  the  Local  Boards  will 
feel  that  I  am  bound  by  obligation  of  duty  as  well  as  by 
personal  desire  to  enforce  the  Selective  Service  Regula- 
tions as  vigorously  as  the  Local  Boards  themselves,  and  1 
desire  to  have  not  one  man  upon  the  Fleet  List  who  is  not 
of  more  value  to  the  Government  in  the  shipyards  than 
he  would  be  in  the  Army. 

The  policy  of  this  office  is  as  follows :     All  men  who  loaf 
on  their  work  or  who  are  absent  from  their  work  more  than 


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two  and  a  half  days  per  month,  exclusive  of  Sundays  and 
holidays — except  for  bona  fide  illness — are  to  be  removed 
immediately  from  Hie  Fleet  List.  Only  those  men  who 
are  working  heart  and  soul  in  the  construction  of  ships 
can  be  retained  upon  the  Fleet  List.  Notorious  slackers, 
i.e.,  men  who  have  gone  into  the  yards  to  avoid  military 
service  and  who  are  boasting  about  it,  should  be  taken  off 
the  List  as  soon  as  possible.  Men  who  have  gone  into  the 
yards  to  avoid  military  duty,  but  who  are  keeping  their 
mouths  shut,  will  also  be  removed  from  the  List  unless 
their  services  at  the  present  time  are  obviously  of  more 
value  in  the  shipyards  than  in  the  Army.  All  men  in 
Class  1,  who  entered  the  yards  as  unskilled  workers,  will 
also  be  removed  from  the  List  unless  within  the  course  of 
the  last  four  or  six  months  they  have  advanced  rapidly  in 
their  work  and  have  become  semi-skilled  or  skilled  work- 
ers so  that  their  places  can  not  be  filled  by  new  men  who 
are  in  deferred  classes  because  of  dependency  claims. 

In  order  to  obtain  the  full  co-operation  of  the  Local 
Boards  I  would  request  that  each  Board  send  to  me  (325 
Exchange  Block,  San  Francisco),  a  list  of  all  the  Class  1 
men  on  their  Fleet  List.  It  is  necessary  that  this  list 
should  contain  the  men's  order  and  serial  numbers,  and 
should  also  give,  without  fail,  the  name  of  the  shipyard 
in  which  the  man  is  employed,  as  all  the  records  in  this 
office  are  kept  according  to  the  company  and  it  is  impossi- 
ble for  us  to  look  up  any  name  unless  we  know  for  which 
company  he  is  working.  It  is  not  the  mere  list  I  want; 
that  I,  myself,  have.  I  particularly  urge  the  Boards  to 
< .r/>ress  their  views  as  to  the  propriety  of  a  man's  name 
being  upon  the  Fleet  List.  I  appreciate  that  the  Boards 
know  more  about  each  man  than  does  this  office  because 
they  have  the  Questionnaire  at  hand,  and  in  each  case  I 
hope  the  Board  will  look  over  the  Questionnaire  and  will 
add  a  statement  of  any  facts  appearing  thereon  which 
will  indicate  the  propriety  of  leaving  the  registrant's  name 
upon  the  List  or  of  taking  it  off.  As  soon  as  these  lists 
are  received  the  cases  will  be  investigated  immediately, 
and  every  man  whom  we  can  possibly  release  to  the  Local 
Boards  will  promptly  be  so  released  by  having  the  proper 
Cancellation  Card  mailed  to  the  Local  Board. 


—  26  — 

One  of  the  dangerous  phases  of  the  work  of  this  Office  is 
the  removing  of  names  from  the  List  aa  booh  aa  men  cease 
working  in  a  shipyard.    The  shipyards  are  under  the  most 

stringent  orders  to  notify  us  as  soon  as  a  man  leaves  their 
employ.  If  a  Local  Board  should  hear  of  any  man  who 
is  no  longer  in  a  shipyard,  but  for  whom  no  Cancellation 
Card  lias  been  received,  I  urgently  request  that  the  Board 
notify  tliis  office  at  once.  In  such  cases,  a  Cancellation 
Card  will  be  sent  out  forthwith  and  a  vigorous  invest  illa- 
tion begun  to  see  why  the  shipyard  did  not  notify  us  aa 
to  the  termination  of  the  man's  employment. 

I  would  request,  also,  that  the  Local  Boards  notify  me 
of  all  cases  where  they  understand  a  man  on  the  Fleet 
List  is  loafing  or  who  is  absent  more  than  two  and  a  half 
days  per  month,  exclusive  of  Sundays  and  holidays,  or 
who  is  taking  an  unpatriotic  attitude  toward  the  war. 

The  Department  of  Justice  holds,  and  properly  so,  that 
alien  enemies  should  not  be  employed  in  a  shipyard. 
Some  of  the  yards,  in  rare  instances,  do  employ  such  men. 
and  this  Office  would  greatly  appreciate  information  from 
the  Boards  as  to  such  cases. 

I  appreciate  that  the  request  which  I  have  made  entails 
further  work  for  the  already  hard-pressed,  overworked 
Local  Boards.  Nevertheless,  I  am  sure  that  the  Local 
Boards  are  anxious  to  co-operate  with  me  in  properly  en- 
forcing the  Emergency  Fleet  List.  1  appreciate,  too.  that 
there  has  been  some  just  criticism  of  this  List  in  the  past, 
but  I  hope  that  I  can  so  co-operate  with  the  Local  Boards 
that  there  will  be  no  room  for  criticism  in  the  future. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Samuel  Spring, 

SS-JL.  Branch  Officer,  Deferments  and  Transfers. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.   J.   BORKl 

Brigadier  General,  \\  <■ 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  27  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  413. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-16  August  19,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject:    Amended    Section    140,    S.  S.  R. — Procedure   in 
Respect  of  Deserters. 

1.  Section  51  now  appearing  in  the  Selective  Service  Regu- 
lations is  rescinded  and  the  subject  of  desertion  is  handled 
under  amended  Section  140,  enclosed  herewith. 

2.  In  this  section  there  has  been  grouped  all  procedure  in 
respect  of  deserters,  beginning  with  the  definition  of  the  vari- 
ous kinds  of  draft  deserters  and  outlining  all  necessary  pro- 
cedure from  the  time  of  arrest  or  voluntary  appearance  before 
a   Local  Board. 

3.  Attention  is  particularly  invited  to  the  following  radical 
changes : 

First :  All  deserters  (wilful  and  nonwilful)  must  be  sub- 
jected to  a  physical  examination  upon  their  appearance 
before  a  Local  Board,  unless  a  recent  record  of  such  exam- 
ination is  already  in  the  possession  of  the  Board. 

Second  :  Deserters  are  divided  into  eight  classes  or 
groups,  with  definite  procedure  for  each  class. 

(a)  Wilful — physically  qualified.  Send  to  nearest 
Army  post,  camp  or  station.  Form  1021  for  police  official. 
Reward  payable  for  arrest  and  delivery  of  deserter;  ex- 
penses, plus  reasonable  compensation,  if -he  voluntarily 
appeared. 


—  28  — 

(/>)  Wilful  Remediable  Group  B.  Same  procedure 
and  reward  as  in  {a). 

(c)  Wilful   -disqualified.     Report- to  Commanding  Offi 
eer  of  mobilization  camp.     No  reward,  expenses  only. 

(d)  Nonwilful — physically  qualified.  Send  to  mobili- 
zation camp.    No  reward,  expenses  only. 

Nonwilful — Remediable  Group  1>.  Procedure  same 
as  in  (d). 

(/)  Nonwilful — qualified  for  special  or  limited  military 
service.  Forward  to  camp  on  next  general  call  for  men 
so  qualified.     No  reward,  expenses  only. 

(g)  Nonwilful — disqualified.  Report  case  to  mobiliza- 
tion camp.     No  reward,  expenses  only. 

(h)  Enemy  alien — (wilful  or  nonwilful).  Report  ease 
to  mobilization  camp  and  to  District  Attorney.  No  re- 
ward, expenses  only. 

Third:  Form  1021  is  issued,  only  in  case  of  wilful  de- 
serters, physically  qualified  for  general  military  service. 
or  in  Remediable  Group  B.  Reward  is  payable  only  for 
wilful  deserters,  physically  qualified,  or  in  Remediable 
Group  B,  who  are  actually  arrested.  If  such  deserters 
voluntarily  appear  before  a  Board,  the  guard  delivering 
them  to  camp  shall  receive  expenses  only,  plus  a  reasonable 
compensation.  A  letter  advising  the  circumstances  of 
desertion  and  apprehension  must  be  attached  to  Form 
1021. 

Fourth:  If  expenses  of  the  delivery  of  a  wilful  deserter 
amount  to  more  than  $50.00,  a  telegram  must  be  sent  to 
the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  mobilization  camp,  request- 
ing instructions. 

Fifth:  Upon  disposition  of  the  case  of  any  kind  of  de- 
serter, the  Local  Board  disposing  of  the  case  Bhall  notify 
the  Provost  Marshal  General  and  the  State  Adjutant 
General  on  Form  lo-jl-A  and  1*.  These  forma  are  now 
mi  the  press  and  will  be  mailed  shortly. 

Sixth*.  Form  1021  has  been  amended  and  amplified. 


—  29  — 

4.  Draft  Executives,  Local  Board  members  and  all  others 
concerned  in  the  apprehension  and  delivery  of  deserters  should 
study  this  amended  section  with  the  utmost  care.  This 
amended  section  was*  arranged  with  the  idea  of  grouping  all 
possible  procedure  with  reference  to  all  possible  kinds  of 
deserters  under  one  head,  and  to  explain  in  detail  the  necessary 
procedure  for  each  class,  so  that  no  possible  error  can  arise. 

5.  A  study  of  this  Regulation  and  careful  compliance  there- 
with, will  not  only  eliminate  the  necessity  for  a  great  amount 
of  correspondence  on  the  subject  of  desertion,  but  will  also 
tend  to  remove  the  friction  which  has  arisen  from  time  to 
time  between  camp  authorities  on  the  one  hand,  and  Local 
Board  members  and  local  police  officials  on  the  other,  which 
friction  has  arisen  generally  through  a  lack  of  proper  under- 
standing of  the  necessary  procedure.  Local  Boards  should 
bear  in  mind  that  it  has  been  held  by  the  Judge  Advocate 
General  and  by  the  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury,  that  in  the 
issuance  of  Form  1021,  based  upon  findings  of  facts  pursuant 
to  investigation,  the  decision  of  the  Local  Board  is  final  and 
not  subject  to  review  by  camp  authorities.  Therefore,  Boards 
must  exercise  the  utmost  care  in  arriving  at  a  determination 
of  wilful  or  nonwilful  desertion.  Once  this  decision  has  been 
reached  and  the  registrant  physically  examined,  no  mistake 
should  be  made,  if  the  procedure  indicated  be  followed. 

Bulletinize  this  letter  and  the  amended  section,  intact,  to 
all  Local  Boards. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  Breckinridge  Jones, 
Captain,  Infantry,  U.  S.  A., 
Chief,   Delinquency   Division. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  30  — 

Form  1021    PJK.G.O. 
(Sec.  140,  B.S.B.) 

191_. 

From:  Local   Board  for 

To:        Commanding  Officer 

Subject:   Arrest  of  Wilful  Desebteb. 

Order    No Serial    No 

(Name  of  deserter) 

having  been  inducted   into  military   service   on 

By   Local    Board   for 

by   Adjutant   General   of and    having 

(Strike  out  one) 

(")    Failed    to    report    in   accordance    with    induction    orders    (Sec.    ll<». 

Par.   1-a). 
(»)    Failed    to    entrain    (Sec.    140,    Par.    1-B). 
{(■)    Absented    liimself   from    party   ennmte    to   camp    (Sec.    L40,    Par. 

(Check  one) 

has    been    apprehended    by 

(Name  of  police  official) 

lias  voluntarily  appeared. 

(strike  out  one) 

Upon    investigation   this    Local    Board   finds    thai    the   offense   of   said 

Was   committed    with    an    intent    to 

(Name  of  deserter) 
evade   military   service,   and  that  he  is — 

Physically   qualified    for   military   service. 

Physically  qualified    (Bemediable  Group   B). 

(Strike  out  one) 

and    hereby   directs    that deliver 

(Name  of  guard  Of  police  ntlleial.) 

the to  you    for   further  action   of   the 

(.Name  Of  flOIBTtOl) 

military   authorities. 
Recommend — 

Payment  of  $50.00  reward. 

Reimbursement   for  actual  expenses  and  reasonable  compensation 

bf  total   not   to  exceed  150.00.     (In 

deserter    voluntarily    appeared.) 

(Stilk.-  out 

Member  of  i.u,  <ii  i;>,<mi. 


31  — 


Circular  Letter  No.  414. 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

18.  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:  Erroneous   Classification  of  Married  Men. 

It  has  come  to  the  attention  of  this  Office  that  a  number  of 
Local  Boards  are  disregarding  the  instructions  of  the  Provost 
Marshal  General  in  reference  to  the  classification  of  married 
men  with  children  and  have  classified  in  many  instances  mar- 
ried men  with  children  in  Class  One  on  the  assumption  that 
the  wives  were  able  to  support  the  family.  This  is  improper, 
and  all  such  married  men  classed  in  Class  One  should  be  imme- 
diately given  a  deferred  classification. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  415. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

18.  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:  Amendment  to  Section  79,  Note  3. 
The  following  change  in  the  Selective  Service  Regulations  is 
Quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned: 

Section  7!),  Note  3j  is  amended  to  read  as  follows: 
"The  words  'persons  in  the  military  and  naval  service 
of  the  United  States,'  as  employed  in  said  Act  of  Congress 
and  in  these  Regulations,  shall  be  construed  as  including 


—  32  — 

all  officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  Regular  Army,  the 
Regular  Army  Reserve,  the  Officers'*  Reserve  Corps,  and 
the  Enlisted  Reserve  Corps;  all  officers  and  enlisted  men 
of  the  Navy,  the  Marine  Corps,  and  the  Coast  Guard ;  all 
officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  Naval  Militia,  Naval  Re- 
serve Force,  Marine  Corps  Reserve,  and  National  Naval 
Voluiiteers  recognized  by  the  Navy  Department;  all 
officers  of  the  Public  Health  Service  commissioned  v 
authority  of  the  Act  of  January  4,  1889;  and  any  of  the 
personnel  of  the  Lighthouse  Service  and  of  the  Coast  and 
Geodetic  Survey  transferred  by  the  President  to  the  serv- 
ice and  jurisdiction  of  the  War  Department  or  of  the  Navy 
Department. 

"Officers  and  enlisted  men  of  the  National  Guard  and 
National  Guard  Reserve  not  drafted  into  the  military 
service  of  the  United  States  shall  not  be  regarded  as  In 
the  military  service  of  the  United  States,  although  their 
organizations  may  have  been  recognized  by  the  Militia 
Bureau  unless  and  until  such  organizations  have  been 
specially  designated  by  orders  from  the  War  Department 
to  be  drafted  into  the  military  service  of  the  United 
States." 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  416. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

16.  August  19,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards  and  M<  dioal  Advisory  Boards: 

Subject:  Employment  of  Clerks. 
1.  Governor  William  D.  Stephens  has  directed  this  Office  to 
request  all  Boards,  when  employing  clerks  or  assistants  ol  any 


—  33  — 

kind,   that  preference   be   given   dependents  of  soldiers   and 
sailors. 

2.  The  Local,  District  and  Medical  Advisory  Boards  employ 
three  hundred  or  more  clerks,  and  upon  the  extension  of  the 
ages  of  registrants  many  more  will  be  necessary. 

3.  The  Selective  Service  Boards  should  in  every  way  relieve 
the  distress,  both  mental  and  financial,  whenever  possible,  of 
the  men  sent  to  camp,  and  it  appears  that  this  procedure 
should  be  productive  of  great  good  in  that  direction. 

J.   J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  417. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

18.  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Draft  Executives: 

Subject:  Rescinding  Section  51,  S.  S.  R.,  and  Substituting 
Therefor  Amended  Section  140. 

Section  51,  S.  S.  R.,  is  hereby  rescinded,  and  Section  140, 
S.  S.  R.,  amended  as  follows,  is  substituted  therefor: 

Section  140.  1.  A  registrant  who,  after  the  time  set  for  his 
induction  into  military  service  (Section  133,  157,  S.  S.  R.,) 
and  with  intent  to  evade  such  service, 

(a)  Fails  to  report  for  military  duty  under  induction 
orders,  whether  issued  by  the  Adjutant  General  of  the 
State  (Form  1014)  or  by  a  Local  Board  (Form  1028)  ; 
or  who 

(b)  Fails  to  entrain  for  a  mobilization  camp  pursuant 
to  orders ;  or  who 

o     10S88 


—  34  — 

(c)  Absents  himself  from  his  party  en  route  to  a  mobi- 
lization camp,  or  otherwise  refuses  or  neglects  to  proceed 
to  the  camp  as  ordered 

IS  A  DESERTER  AND  SUBJECT  TO  PUNISHMENT 
BY  A  COURTMARTIAL. 

Note.— Under  Section  40  it  i>  tli<i  duty  of  all  police  official!  to  Kneel 
such  deserters  and  take  them  before  a  Local  Board. 

2.  The  fact  of  such  desertion  shall  be  reported  by  the  Loral 
Board  to  the  local  police  authorities  on  Form  1012,  with  a  copy 
of  the  deserter's  registration  card.  If  such  police  authority 
is  unable  to  produce  the  deserter  within  forty-eight  hours,  or 
in  case  he  does  not  voluntarily  appear  before  the  Local  Board 
within  that  time,  such  Board  shall  immediately  report  the 
deserter's  name  to  the  Adjutant  General  of  the  Army  direel 
on  Form  1018,  enclosing  a  copy  of  the  order  of  induction  into 
military  service  (Form  1028),  the  registration  card  (Form  1), 
and  the  report  of  physical  examination  (Form  1010)  in  re- 
spect of  such  person,  and  shall  enter  the  date  of  mailing  of 
such  report  in  Column  25  of  the  Classification  List. 

3.  Upon  the  arrest  of  a  deserter,  the  official  or  other  person 
making  the  arrest  shall  take  him  before  a  nearby  Local  Board 
(preferably  the  Local  Board  which  ordered  him  to  report  for 
military  duty). 

4.  Upon  the  appearance  of  a  deserter  before  a  Local  Board. 
WHETHER  VOLUNTARY  OR  UNDER  ARREST,  the  pro- 
cedure shall,  in  all  cases,  be  as  follows : 

5.  THE  LOCAL  BOARD  SHALL  FIRST  INQUIRE 
WHETHER  THE  FAILURE  TO  REPORT,  OK'  OTHER- 
WISE PERFORM  ANY  DUTY  DESCRIBKD  IN  PARA- 
GRAPH 1  ABOVE,  WAS  WITH  OR  WITHOUT  INTENT 
TO  EVADE  .MILITARY  SERVICE.  IT  SHALL  THERE 
UPON  CAUSE  HUM  TO  BE  PHYSICALLY  EXAMINED, 
UNLESS  A  RECENT  RECORD  OF  Ills  physical  L\ 
AMINATION  is  ALREADY  IN  THE  POSSESSION  OF 
His  local  BOARD. 

(a)  Default  wilful;  registrant  qualified  for  general  mili- 
tary service,  tf  the  Local  Board  finds  that  the  registrant 
failed  to  report  or  otherwise  perform  any  duty  described 


—  35  — 

in  paragraph  1  above,  with  intent  to  evade  military  serv- 
ice, and  that  he  is  physically  qualified  for  general  military 
service  (Group  A),  it  shall  make  and  deliver  to  a  police 
official  or  guard,  a  certificate  (Form  1021)  to  the  effect 
that  the  desertion  was  wilful,  to  which  shall  be  attached 
a  letter  stating  the  facts  of  desertion  and  apprehension 
and  shall  direct  such  police  official  or  guard  to  deliver  the 
deserter  to  the  nearest  army  camp,  post  or  station. 

Reward:  (1)  If  such  deserter  has  voluntarily  ap- 
peared before  the  Local  Board,  or  has  been  brought  before 
it  by  a  person  not  entitled  to  collect  a  reward,  the  Local 
Board  shall  make  proper  arrangements  for  his  delivery 
to  the  nearest  Army  camp,  post,  or  station,  as  a  deserter, 
HUT  NO  EEAVARD  SHALL  BE  PAID.  The  person 
delivering  such  deserter  shall  be  entitled  to  actual  and 
necessary  expenses  only,  plus  such  reasonable  compensa- 
tion as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Local  Board  and  ap- 
proved by  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  camp  to  which 
the  deserter  is  delivered,  the  total  not  to  exceed  $50  per 
man. 

(2)  In  all  cases,  the  person  delivering  a  wilful  deserter 
is  entitled  to  collect  a  reward  of  $50.  In  either  case, 
Local  Boards  shall  issue  Form  1021,  but  shall  recommend 
thereon  whether  the  entire  reward  of  $50,  or  reimburse- 
ment of  expenses,  should  be  paid. 

(b)  Default  wilful:  Registrant  qualified  for  general 
military  service  in  deferred  remediable  group.  If  the 
Local  Board  finds  that  the  registrant  failed  to  report  or 
otherwise  perform  any  duty  described  in  paragraph  1 
above,  with  intent  to  evade  military  service,  and  that  he  is 
physically  qualified  for  general  military  service,  but  has 
a  remediable  defect  (Group  B),  action  shall  not  be  de- 
layed, but  such  case  shall  be  disposed  of  in  accordance 
with  paragraph    (a)    above. 

Reward:  See  paragraph   (a)   above. 

(c)  Default  toilful:  Registrant  not  qualified  for  general 
military  service.  If  the  Local  Board  finds  that  the  regis- 
trant failed  to  report  or  otherwise  perform  any  duty 
described  in  paragraph  1  above,  with  intent  to  evade  mili- 
tary service,  and  that  the  deserter  is  physically  qualified 
for  special  or  limited  military  service  only   (Group  C), 


—  36  — 

or    is   totally    and    permanently    physically    disqualified 

(Group  D),  it  shal]  not  forward  him  to  an  Army  camp, 
post  or  station.  The  Local  Board  shall,  however,  immedi- 
ately communicate  by  telegraph  with  the  Commandinir 
Officer  of  the  mobilization  camp  to  which  men  are  being 
sent  on  a  pending  general  call,  if  any.  or  to  which  men 
were  sent  on  the  last  preceding  general  call.  Stating  tin- 
facts  in  the  case,  that  the  desertion  was  wilful  and  the 
deserter  physically  disqualified,  whether  the  desertion  is 
admitted,  and  requesting  immediate  instructions.  If  the 
Commanding  Officer  directs  that  the  deserter  be  forwarded 
to  camp,  he  shall  be  delivered  in  the  manner  prescribed  in 
paragraph  (a)  above.  If  the  Commanding  Officer  directs 
his  discharge  (see  Circular  A.  G.  0.-1/12/18),  the  Local 
Board  shall  forthwith  reclassify  the  deserter  in  Class  V, 
as  being  totally  and  permanently  disqualified  for  military 
service,  or  in  Class  I,  qualified  for  special  or  limited  mili- 
tary service,  as  determined  by  the  result  of  the  physical 
examination,  and  shall  forthwith  refer  the  case  to  the 
United  States  District  Attorney  for  violation  of  Section  6 
of  the  Selective  Service  Law. 

Reward:  No  reward  shall  be  payable  for  the  apprehen- 
sion and  delivery  to  a  Local  Board  of  a  wilful  deserter, 
found  physically  disqualified,  or  qualified  for  special  or 
limited  military  service  only.  The  person  making  the 
arrest  and  delivery,  however,  is  entitled  to  reimbursement 
for  the  actual  and  necessary  expense  incurred,  not  to 
exceed  $50  per  man,  in  the  apprehension  and  deli 
of  a  deserter  to  such  Local  Board.  The  account  for  reim- 
bursement of  such  necessary  and  reasonable  expense  will 
be  stated  on  "War  Depart  men  1  Form  350-A,  which  may  lie 
obtained  by  the  Local  Board  upon  application  t<>  State 
Headquarters,  After  certification  by  a  member  of  the 
Local  Board,  this  account  shall  be  forwarded  for  payment 
to  the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  nearest  Army  ; 
cam])  or  station.  There  should  be  attached  to  the  claim 
for  reimbursement,  a  receipt  from  the  Local  Board  Cor  the 
deserter.  This  account  should  he  carefully  prepared  and 
sworn  to  l»y  the  Officer  claiming  the  reimbursement 

(d)   Default  nonwilful:  Registrant  qualified  for  general 
military  service,     It'  the  Local  Board  finds  that  the  n 
brant    tailed   to   report  or  otherwise  perform  any  duty 


—  37  — 

described  in  paragraph  1  above,  but  without  intent  to 
evade  military  service,  and  that  he  is  physically  qualified 
for  general  military  service  (Croup  A),  it  shall  send  him 
to  tile  mobilization  eamp,  to  which  men  are  being  sent  on 
a  pending  general  call,  if  any,  or  to  which  men  were  sent 
on  the  last  general  call. 

Reward:   See  paragraph  (g)  below. 

(e)  Default  nonwilful :  Registrant  qualified  for  general 
military  service  in  deferred  remediable  group.  If  the 
Local  Board  finds  that  the  registrant  failed  to  report  or 
otherwise  perform  any  duty  prescribed  in  paragraph  1 
above,  but  without  intent  to  evade  military  service,  and 
that  he  is  physically  qualified  for  general  military  service, 
but  has  a  remediable  defect  (Group  B),  he  shall  be  sent 
to  the  mobilization  camp,  as  described  in  paragraph  (d) 
above. 

Reward:    See  paragraph  (g)  below. 

(/)  Default  nonwilful:  Registrant  qualified  for  special 
or  limited  service  only.  If  the  Local  Board  finds  that  the 
registrant  failed  to  report  or  otherwise  perform  any  duty 
described  in  paragraph  1  above,  but  without  intent  to 
evade  military  service,  and  that  he  is  physically  qualified 
for  special  or  limited  military  service  only  (Group  C),  he 
shall  be  forwarded  on  the  next  general  call  for  men  quali- 
fied for  such  special  or  limited  military  service. 

Reward:   See  paragraph  (g)  below. 

(g)  Default  nonwilful:  Registrant  disqualified  for  gen- 
eral military  service.  If  the  Local  Board  finds  that  the 
registrant  failed  to  report  or  otherwise  perform  any  duty 
described  in  paragraph  1  above,  but  without  intent  to 
evade  military  service,  and  that  he  is  totally  and  perma- 
nently physically  disqualified  (Group  D),  it  shall  report 
the  case  to  the  mobilization  camp,  as  described  in  para- 
graph (d)  above,  with  a  request  for  instructions. 

Reward:  No  reward  shall  be  payable  for  the  apprehen- 
sion and  delivery  to  a  Local  Board  of  a  nonwTilful  deserter 
(Paragraphs  d,  e,  f,  g),  or  of  a  deserter  found  to  be  an 
enemy  alien  (Paragraph  10  below),  but  reimbursement 
may  be  obtained  for  the  actual  and  necessary  expense 
incurred,  not  to  exceed  $50  per  man,  in  the  apprehension 


—  38  — 

and  delivery  of  a  deserter  to  such  Local  Board.     Accounts 

for  reimbursement  of  such  accessary  and  reasonable 
pense  will  be  stated  on   War  Department  Form  350  A. 
which  may  be  obtained  by  the  Local  Board  on  application 

to  State  Headquarters,  and  after  certification  by  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Local  Board,  will  be  forwarded  for  payment  to 
the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  mobilization  camp  to  which 
men  are  being  sent  on  a  pending  general  call,  if  any,  or  to 
which  men  were  sent  on  the  lasi  preceding  call.  There 
should  be  attached  to  this  claim  for  reimbursement  a  re- 
ceipt from  the  Local  Board  for  the  deserter.  This  account 
should  be  carefully  prepared  and  sworn  to  by  the  officer 
claiming  reimbursement.  In  this  connection  attention  is 
invited  to  General  Orders  No.  26,  War  Department. 

6.  In  respect  to  the  foregoing  rules  for  rewards  and  expenses 
see  Act  of  Congress,  March  2,  1913,  and  General  Orders  No. 
26,  March  21,  1918,  the  following  <|ualifications  apply: 

(a)  A  reward  can  not  be  paid  to  a  Local  Board  member, 
or  clerk,  or  to  a  Federal  official,  but  such  persons  may 
obtain  reimbursement  for  actual  and  necessary  expenses 
as   herein    provided. 

(/;)  Whenever  it  is  found  that  the  expenses  of  the 
delivery  of  a  willful  deserter  to  the  nearest  army  post, 
camp  or  station  will  be  in  excess  of  $50,  Local  Boards 
should  telegraph  to  the  Commanding  Officer  of  such  camp, 

post  or   station    and    request    authority    for   such    delivery. 

indicating   that    the   expenses    in    connection    with    such 
delivery  will  be  in  excess  of  the  usual  reward  of  $50.00. 
(c)  If,  upon   delivery   of  an  alleged  deserter  to  the 

Local  Board,  it  is  found  that  he  has  not  actually  been 
inducted  into  service  no  reward  shall  be  paid,  but  the 
officer  who  has  apprehended  and  delivered  the  alleged 
deserter  may  obtain  reimbursement  for  actual  and  neces- 
sary expenses  incurred  by  submitting  a  claim  to  the 
nearest  United  States  Marshal,  together  with  a  statement 
of  the  facts  and  a  certificate  from  the  Local  Board  con- 
cerned that  the  man  apprehended  and  delivered  has  not 
been  inducted  into  military  service  under  the  provisions 
of  the  Selective  Service  Regulations.    The  United  states 


—  39  — 

Marshal  will  thereupon  transmit  the  papers  to  the  Depart- 
ment of  Justice,  with  his  approval  or  disapproval,  and 
action  upon  the  claim  will  be  promptly  taken. 

7.  Papers  to  he  forwarded.  If  the  Local  Board  forwarding 
the  deserter  is  the  one  which  originally  ordered  him  to  camp 
it  shall  forward  a  new  set  of  the  usual  papers  to  the  mobiliza- 
tion camp,  together  with  a  letter  stating  that  such  papers  cover 
the  person  named  therein  and  that  he  is  being  sent  to  camp  as 
a  deserter,  and  giving  the  facts  of  desertion  and  apprehension 
or  voluntary  appearance. 

8.  When  the  Local  Board. sending  the  deserter  to  camp  in 
accordance  with  this  section  is  not  the  Board  which  originally 
ordered  him  to  camp  it  shall  inform  the  Local  Board  which 
ordered  him  to  camp  that  the  deserter  is  being  sent  to  a  camp, 
naming  it,  and  shall  enclose  three  copies  of  Form  1010,  re- 
questing the  other  Board  to  send  to  such  camp  the  following 
mobilization  papers  with  a  letter  stating  that  the  papers  cover 
the  person  named  therein  and  that  he  is  being  sent  to  camp  by 
the  Local  Board,  naming  it,  before  which  he  appeared  as  a 
deserter: 

(1)  One  copy  of  Form  1029  (in  duplicate)  in  respect 
of  the  deserter,  filling  in  the  date  as  of  the  date  the  Local 
Board  was  informed  by  the  Local  Board  of  transfer  of  the 
deserter's  arrest. 

(2)  One  copy  each  of  Forms  1029- A  and  1029-B  in  re- 
spect of  the  deserter,  dating  same  as  in  (1). 

(3)  One  copy  of  Form  1  (Registration  Card)  in  respect 
of  the  deserter. 

(4)  Two  copies  of  Form  1010  in  respect  of  the  deserter. 

1).  The  Local  Board  sending  the  deserter  to  camp  shall  in- 
form the  Commanding  Officer  of  the  post,  camp  or  station  that 
it  will  entrain  the  deserter,  naming  him,  and  that  it,  or  the 
Local  Board  of  previous  jurisdiction,  naming  it,  will  furnish 
the  necessary  mobilization  papers. 

10.  Upon  the  appearance  before  a  Local  Board  of  a  deserter, 
willful  or  nonwillful,  who  is  found  to  be  an  enemy  alien,  such 
Board  shall  immediately  telegraph  to  the  Commanding  Officer 
of  the  proper  mobilization  camp  (see  paragraph  (d)  above),  a 
full  statement  of  the  case  and  request  instructions.  If  the 
Camp  Commander  directs  his  discharge,  the  Local  Board  shall 


—  40  — 

thereupon  report  to  the  United  Stales  District  Attorney,  who 
will  consider  the  question  of  internment. 

11.  In  every  instance  in  which  ;i  Local  Board  disposes  of  the 
ease  of  a  deserter  in  accordance  with  the  procedure  outlined  in 
paragraph  5  above,  it  shall  forthwith  notify  the  State  Adjutant 
(o'lieral  and  the  Provost  Marshal  General  of  the  action  taken. 
using  Forms  1021-A  and  1021-B. 

12.  In  forwarding  deserters  to  military  control  under  para- 
graphs (a),  (d)  and  (/)  above,  the  following  procedure  will 
be  adopted  with  reference  to  call  numbers,  as  indicated  on 
Forms  1029  and  1029-A  and  B. 

All  willful  deserters  forwarded  to  a  military  post,  camp  or 
station  shall  be  forwarded  under  call  number  "Des. "  Non- 
willful deserters  who  are  forwarded  to  a  mobilization  camp 
with  a  contingent  of  men  under  general  call  will  be  forwarded 
under  the  call  number  for  that  call.  Nonwillful  deserters  for- 
warded to  mobilization  camp  at  a  time  when  no  general  call 
is  in  effect  will  be  forwarded  under  call  number  "N.  W.  D." 

13.  In  cases  of  extreme  and  unusual  hardship,  the  provisions 
of  Section  139  may  be  invoked  in  the  ease  of  a  nonwillful 
deserter,  physically  qualified  for  general  military  service,  or 
for  special  or  limited  military  service,  or  placed  in  the  deferred 
remediable  Group  B. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  <!.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  418. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

20  An-u.st  20,  1918 

To  (ill  Selective  Service  Executives: 

Subject:  General  Crowder's  Letter  Declining  Promotion. 
1.  Enclosed   herewith    is   copy  of  letter   written    by    Major 
General  E.  H.  Crowder,  Provost  Marshal  General,  to  Senator 
Chamberlain. 


—  41  — .  ' 

2.  As  you  are  aware,  provision  had  been  made  in  the  Army 
Appropriation  Bill  for  the  promotion  of  General  Crowder  to 
the  grade  of  Lieutenant  General.  In  his  letter  to  Senator 
Chamberlain,  General  Crowder  gives  his  reasons  for  declining 
the  promotion.  It  is  believed  this  letter  will  be  of  interest  to 
those  men  who  are  giving  their  time  to  the  carrying  on  of  the 
Selective  Service  Law. 

By  direction  op  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


General   Crowder9 s  Letter  Declining  Promotion  to  Rank  of 
Lieutenant  General. 

July  5,  1918. 
Honorable  George  E.  Chamberlain, 
United  States  Senate. 

My  dear  Senator  Chamberlain: 

In  view  of  that  provision  of  the  Army  Appropriation  Bill, 
persona]  to  myself,  now  pending  hefore  the  Conference  Com- 
mittee, it  is  unavoidable  that  I  should  take  this  opportunity 
to  lay  before  you  and  also  Mr.  Dent,  Chairman  of  the  House 
Conferees,  my  personal  sentiments,  and  to  ask  you  to  communi- 
cate them,  if  you  see  fit,  to  your  associates. 

That  the  provision  in  question  involves  a  compliment  and  a 
distinction  which  I  value  beyond  anything  in  my  military 
career,  is  natural;  and  that  the  approval  testified  to  by  the 
vote  of  the  Senate  gratifies  me  beyond  the  power  of  words 
to  express,  is  a  simple  statement  of  fact. 

But,  after  considerable  reflection,  and  viewing  the  matter 
in  a  broad  way,  I  am  reluctant  to  allow  the  consideration  of 
the  proposed  proviso  to  proceed  any  further.  If  the  conferees 
are  in  accord  with  my  wishes  in  this  regard,  I  should  be  glad 
if  you,  for  the  Senate  Conferees,  and  Chairman  Dent,  for  the 
House  Conferees,  in  reporting  back  to  your  respective  houses 


—  42  — 

thai  the  Senate  yielded  on  this  provision,  would  say  that  tin- 
action  was  in   accord   with   my   request   and   for  the  express 

reason  next   to  be  stated. 
Forty-eight  States  and  three  Territorial   Headquarters  and 

nearly  six  thousand  Local  and  District  Boards,  with  an  aggre- 
gate memhership  of  nearly  eighteen  thousand  citizens,  assisted 
hy  legal  and  medical  Advisory  Boards  in  every  jurisdiction. 
have  co-operated  with  the  National  Headquarters  efficiently 
and  honorably,  and  many  without  compensation,  in  the  superb 
team-work  which  has  produced  the  gratifying  results  at t Mined 
under  the  Selective  Service  Law.  These  results  embrace 
the  registration  of  more  than  ten  and  one-half  millions  of  citi- 
zens and  their  classification  for  military  service,  and  the  en- 
trapment of  the  nearly  1,600,000  men  now  serving  with  the 
colors.  By  August  1st  of  this  year  this  latter  number  will  be 
approximately  2,000,000,  and  by  the  close  of  the  year,  if  ex- 
pected requisitions  are  received,  the  aggregate  will  approach 
:i,()00,000.  Of  the  members  of  these  boards  it  may  be  truly 
said  that  when  the  Selective  Service  System  which  they  admin- 
ister ceases  to  function  efficiently  to  produce  the  military  and 
to  conserve  the  industrial  man-power,  we  shall  be  in  a  fair 
way  to  lose  this  war.  I  have  long  entertained  the  view  that 
something  ought  to  be  done  to  recognize  publicly  and  emphati- 
cally the  enormous  sacrifices  these  citizens  have  made  in  be- 
stowing the  continuous  and  exhausting  services  that  has  been 
indespensable  in  carrying  the  administrative  burden  of  the 
Selective  Service  System.  The  difficulty  has  been  in  devising 
a  suitable  reward,  nation-wide  in  its  application,  and  accept- 
able generally  to  those  who  have  so  participated.  At  the  risk 
of  being  regarded  as  ungrateful  to  the  proposers  of  this  pro- 
vision, I  can  not  bring  myself  to  be  satisfied  thai  my  own  con- 
scientiously performed  share  in  discharging  that  duty  should 
become  the  subject  of  recognition,  so  long  as  the  far  greater 
share  of  these  other  builders  of  the  National  Army  remains 
without  public  and  distinguished  acknowledgment  in  the  rec- 
ords of  ( Vmgress. 

These  men,  my  fellow-workers,  their  toils,  their  sacrifices, 
and  their  achievements,  are  next  to  my  heart.  On  this  sub- 
ject, I  frankly  confess  to  a  deep  sentiment—]  hope  that  it  will 

not    be   reckoned   as  sent  inieiit  alit  \  —  a   sentiment    which   would 


—  43  — 

not  receive  unalloyed  satisfaction  from  the  bestowal   of  any 
honor,  however  generous,  that  is  personal  to  myself  only. 

In  placing  before  you  at  this  time  these  sincere  convictions, 
I  trust  that  I  have  adequately  expressed  the  motive  that 
prompted  this  letter. 

Cordially  and  gratefully  yours, 

E.  II.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  419. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

20  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Selective  Service  Executives: 

Subject:   Amendment  of  Section  90,  S.  S.  B. 
1.  The  following  changes  in   Selective  Service  Eegulations 
is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned: 

"1.  Section  90,  Selective  Service  Eegulations,  has  been 
amended  by  inserting  in  the  first  sentence  of  the  second  para- 
graph of  said  section,  after  the  words  in  parenthesis  in  the 
third  line  of  said  sentence  'Section  120,'  the  following  words: 
'or  because  such  names  have  been  omitted  or  stricken  off  by 
reason  of  error  or  mistake';  so  that  the  said  first  sentence  of 
the  second  paragraph  of  Section  90  so  amended  shall  read  as 
follows:  'When  names  are  to  be  added  to  the  Classification 
List,  either  because  of  late  registration  (Section  54),  or  be- 
cause of  change  of  status  (Section  120),  or  because  such 
names  have  been  omitted  or  stricken  off  by  reason  of  error  or 
mistake,  such  names  shall  be  added  to  the  bottom  of  the  Classi- 
fication List  following  the  names  of  persons  already  entered 
thereon.'  The  remainder  of  Section  90  will  remain  as  at 
present. 

"2.  It  has  been  discovered  that  in  some  localities  errors  and 
mistakes  have  occurred  by  reason  of  which  certain  registrants 


—  44  — 

who,  under  the  ftrsl  draft,  failed  to  reporl  and  should,  by  due 
process,  have  been  reduced  to  the  condition  of  deserters,  were 
no1  proceeded  againsl  in  accordance  with  the  old  Regulations, 
and  thai  Local  Boards  which  had  reported  such  registrants 
on  old  Form  146-  A,  and  had  assumed  that  such  registrants  bad 
become  deserters,  erased  their  names  from  tbe  classification 
list  at  the  time  of  tbe  original  preparation  of  the  classification 
lists.  For  example,  it  has  been  discovered  in  one  jurisdiction 
that  a  large  number  of  Local  Boards  during  August,  Septem- 
ber, October  and  November,  1917,  forwarded  the  pink  list,  old 
Form  146-A,  to  the  District  Board,  and  the  District  Board, 
instead  of  forwarding  same  by  indorsement  to  the  Adjutant 
General  of  the  State,  filed  said  lists  and  held  them  without 
action  until  recently.  The  Local  Boards  interested  properly 
assumed  that  the  lists  had  gone  forward  to  the  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral of  the  State  and  that  the  registrants  so  listed  had  become 
deserters  and  the  Local  Board  therefore  drew  a  red  line 
through  the  names  of  such  registrants  on  the  classification 
list.  The  result  has  been  that  such  registrants  have  been 
totally  lost  sight  of,  neither  being  reported  as  deserters  under 
the  old  Regulations,  nor  being  classified  under  the  new  Regu- 
lations. Similar  mistakes  may  have  arisen  in  other  jurisdic- 
tions by  failure  of  Local  Boards  to  forward  old  "Form  14 1 
or  by  the  failure  of  District  Boards  to  forward  the  same  to 
the  Adjutant  General  of  the  State,  or  by  mistake  in  the  latter 7s 
office  in  failing  to  issue  the  notices  to  such  registrants  and 
thereafter  report  them  as  deserters.  You  will  immediately 
have  an  exhaustive  investigation  made  in  order  to  ascertain 
whether  or  not  any  such  mistakes  or  errors  have  been  made 
in  your  State,  and  if  any  such  errors  or  mistakes  have 
occurred,  you  will  order  Local  Hoards  to  proceed  immediately 
in  accordance  with  Section  90  as  amended  and  the  remaining 
sections  of  Part  V,  Selective  Service  Regulations." 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 

The  Adjutant  General. 


—  45  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  420. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Selective  Service  Executives: 

Subject:  Induction  of  Clerical  Help. 

The  following  telegram  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General 
is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned : 

301SF  TN       311  GVT.       CA  Washington,  D.  C.     713P  Aug. 

19,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  twenty-six  eight  two  period  fully  realizing 
the  difficulties  of  securing  and  maintaining  competent  and 
ample  clerical  forces  for  state  headquarters  and  for  local 
comma  district  and  medical  advisory  boards  comma  and 
in  anticipation  of  the  largely  increased  volume  of  work 
which  will  result  from  the  enactment  into  law  of  the  bill 
now  pending  in  congress  to  increase  the  age  limit  and  the 
necessity  for  expeditiously  classifying  the  new  registrants 
in  order  to  be  ready  to  respond  instantly  to  all  calls  for 
men  comma  this  office  has  requested  and  secured  authority 
to  induct  into  service  either  as  private  or  in  noncom- 
missioned grades  for  clerical  and  administrative  work  at 
state  headquarters  and  at  local  comma  district  and  medical 
advisory  boards  comma  class  one  registrants  who  are 
physically  disqualified  for  general  military  service  but 
qualified  for  special  or  limited  military  service  and  also 
specially  qualified  for  such  clerical  and  administrative 
work  period  detailed  instructions  concerning  the  induction 
of  such  registrants  comma  their  mustering  in  comma  the 
noncommissioned  rank  which  may  be  allowed  in  certain 
cases  and  so  forth  will  be  issued  in  due  course  period  until 
such  instructions  are  promulgated  the  specific  authority 


—  46  — 

issued  by  this  office  for  the  induction  of  such  registrants 
no  .steps  should  be  taken  except  that  boards  ought  to  make 
careful  inspection  of  their  lists  of  class  one  Limited  service 
men  qualified  as  clerks  and  ascertain  whether  or  not  there 
may  be  some  registrants  in  deferred  classes  who  will  be 
willing  to  waive  deferred  classification  and  be  inducted 
for  this  purpose  period  Local  boards  should  make  a  ten- 
tative list  of  such  men  comma  bearing  in  mind  that  such 
registrants  will  be  needed  not  only  for  local  boards  but 
also  for  state  headquarters  and  district  medical  advisory 
boards  period  Promulgate  this  immediately  and  fully  to 
local  comma  district   and  medical  advisory  boards. 

Crowder. 
816P 

Bv    DIRECTION   OP    TIIK    GOVERNOR. 

J.   J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  421. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

20.  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

August  10,  L918 
FROM:  Office  of  the  IVnvost   Marshal  General. 
To:       Draft  Executives  in  all  States. 

Subject:  Expenses  op  Selected  Men  After  Induction. 

1.  Frequent  instructions  sent  by  this  office  regarding  the 
payment  for  services  for  selected  men  subsequent  to  induction 
directed  thai  such  claims  be  sent  to  the  Depot  Quartermaster, 
Washington,  I).  C.  This  work  has  been  transferred  to  the 
Quartermaster  General,  Centra]  Disbursing  Branch,  Washing- 
ton, I).  ('..  and  such  instructions  are  modified  to  that  extent 


—  47  — 

2.  This  means  that  all  vouchers  covering  automobile  hire, 
transportation  by  common  carrier,  or  any  other  means  of 
transporting  inducted  men  from  the  set  of  the  Board  to  camp, 
and  also  vouchers  covering  meals  and  lodging  of  men  after 
induction,  should  be  sent  as  above  directed  to  the  Quarter- 
master General,  Central  Disbursing  Branch,  and  not  to  the 
Depot  Quartermaster. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 

Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  W.  S.  Price, 

'      W.  S.  Price, 

Major,  N.  A., 

Chief  Disbursing  Officer. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  422. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

20.  August  20,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

August  12,  1918. 
From  :  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  in  all  States. 

Subject  J    Correction    op    Irregular    Transportation    Re- 
quests or  Meal  Tickets. 

1.  The  attention  of  this  office  has  been  drawn  to  the  fact 
that  there  are  many  eases  where  inducted  men  en  route  to 
camps  have  trouble  due  to  improperly  prepared  transportation 
requests  or  meal  tickets,  or  because  of  their  not  having  been 


^  48  — 

issued  a  sufficient  number  of  meal  tickets  to  subsist  them  en 

route  to  the  mobilization  camp.     In  response  to  inquirit 
to  the  proper  procedure,  the  following  is  directed : 

2.  A  Local  Board  to  whom  an  inducted  man  applies  for 
correction  of  an  error  in  his  transportation  request  or  meal 
tickets,  or  to  obtain  a  sufficient  supply  of  meal  tickets  ne 
sary  for  the  number  of  meals  required  en  route  to  mobilization 
camp,  may  correct  the  error  or  supply  the  deficiency.  Each 
case  must  be  treated  according  to  the  circumstances  and  care 
must  be  taken  that  the  Government  is  not  defrauded  thereby. 
Inducted  men  should  be  required  to  show  their  induction 
papers  or  other  evidence  that  they  are  traveling  to  camp  and 
that  the  deficiency  is  not  caused  by  any  fault  of  their  own. 
In  every  case,  a  report  of  the  circumstances  connected  with 
the  issuance  of  requests  or  meal  tickets  must  accompany  the 
memorandum  copies  to  the  Quartermaster  General,  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

3.  Where  issuance  of  transportation  requests  or  meal  tickets 
is  made  to  an  inducted  man  who,  through  his  own  carelessness, 
has  been  left  behind  while  en  route  to  camp,  a  full  statement 
of  the  circumstances  should  be  made  and  accompany  the  mem- 
orandum copy  of  the  transportation  request  or  meal  tickets, 
forwarded  to  the  Quartermaster  General. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 
By  W.  S.  Price, 
S 
W.  S.  Price, 
Major,  N.  A., 
Chief  Disbursing  Officer. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  1 1 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  49  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  423. 

STATE  OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

H-22  August  22,   1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:   Dependency  op  Wipe. 

1.  The  rules  laid  down  in  Circular  Letter  No.  400  are  ampli- 
fied and  explained  by  the  hereinafter  quoted  telegram  which 
should  be  carefully  studied  in  connection  therewith. 

2.  Said  telegram  is  as  follows: 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  19,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B2695.  Retel  554.  Paragraph  third  of  our 
A 1923  does  not  change  any  of  the  rules  under  which  de- 
pendency claims  may  be  considered.  The  limitations  on 
the  consideration  of  a  wife's  ability  to  earn  a  living  are 
set  forth  in  the  Regulations  and  remain  unchanged. 
Items  making  up  reasonably  adequate  support  are  such  as 
allotment  and  allowances  provided  by  law,  income  from 
husband's  or  wife's  investments  or  other  income,  etc.,  and 
support  available  other  than  that  of  which  the  considera- 
tion is  prohibited  by  the  Regulations  may  be  considered 
under  this  Rule. 

Crowder. 

3.  The  additional  point  to  be  particularly  noted  is  that  the 
possibility  of  the  wife  working  should  not  be  considered  in 
determining  the  sources  of  reasonable  adequate  support  and, 
although  the  wife  may  be  thoroughly  capable  of  earning  a 
salary  to  insure  her  full  support,  that  fact  should  not  be  con- 
sidered in   determining  her  dependence. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 

4—40868 


—  50  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  424. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

August  21,  1918. 
To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:   Amendment  Section  77,  S.  S.  R. 
1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 

all  concerned: 

Adjutant  General, 
•    Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  twenty-seven  ten.  The  following  additional 
paragraph  has  been  added  to  section  seventy-seven  rule 
three  at  the  end  of  said  paragraph  and  rule  "When  a 
claim  is  made  for  deferred  classification  under  subsec- 
tions F,  G,  H,  or  I  of  this  rule  and  is  supported  by  the 
affidavit  of  necessity  and  certificate  of  approval  which 
comply  with  the  requirements  of  these  regulations  such 
affidavit  of  necessity  and  certificate  of  approval  shall  be 
considered  as  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  fact  that  the 
registrant  is  a  necessary  employee  as  claimed  and  he  shall 
be  placed  in  class  three  unless  other  substantial  evidence 
is  received  by  the  Local  Board  sufficient,  in  the  judgmenl 
of  the  Board,  to  rebut  such  prima  facie  evidence  and  to 
prove  that  the  registrant  is  not  a  necessary  employ 
claimed.  In  case  such  a  claim  is  made  and  is  properly 
supported  for  such  deferred  classification  on  behalf  of 
registrant  found  upon  physical  examination  to  be  dis- 
qualified for  general  military  service,  the  Local  Hoard 
shall  grant  the  claim  and  place  the  registrant  in  class 
three,  notwithstanding  he  may  have  been  placed  in  some 
other  class  prior  to  such  physical  examination  and  find- 
ing as  to  his  physical  disqualification,  unless  evidence 
other  than  the  affidavit  of  necessity  and  the  certificate  o[' 
approval  conclusively  proves  that  such  registrant  is  not 
;i  necessary  employee  as  claimed." 


—  51  — 

Promulgate  the  foregoing  immediately  to  all  Local 
Boards  with  instructions  that  they  have  authority  to 
reopen  and  reclassify  registrants  who  have  been  placed  in 
class  one  and  round  not  qualified  for  genera]  military 
service  but  qualified  for  special  or  limited  service  in 
behalf  of  whom  deferred  classification  was  requested  as 
necessary  Government  employee  and  was  denied. 

Crowder. 
By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  425. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

H-18  August  22,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject  :    Brassards. 

1.  No  Brassards  have  as  yet  been  received  from  The  Provost 
Marshal  General,  and  as  soon  as  they  are  received,  they  will 
be  sent  to  Local  Boards  without  requisitions. 

2.  Until  a  sufficient  supply  is  received,  continue  to  use 
Arm  Shields. 

j.  J.  BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C., 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  52  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  426. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18  August  22.   1!>lv 

To  all  Local  and  District   Hoards: 

Subject:    Civil  Prosecution  op  Wilful  Deserters,  Physi- 
cally Disqualified. 

1.  The  following  letter  received  from  the  Office  of  The 
Provost  Marshal  General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and 
guidance  of  all  concerned: 

"1.  It  is  the  announced  policy  of  the  Department  of 
Justice  to  prosecute  vigorously,  all  obstinate  wilful  desert- 
ers, who  can  not  be  forwarded  to  mobilization  camps  under 
amended  Section  140,  S.  S.  R.,  by  reason  of  physical  dis- 
ability. 

"2.  Where  Local  Boards  are  of  the  opinion  that  the 
offense  of  wilful  deserters,  who  are  physically  disqualified, 
is  so  flagrant  as  to  demand  punishment,  they  will  call  the 
case  to  the  attention  of  the  nearest  United  States  District 
Attorney.  If  such  attorney  refuses  to  prosecute  this 
office  should  be  advised,  through  the  State  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral, in  order  that  the  matter  may  be  taken  up  with  l lie 
Department  of  Justice  and  the  District  Attorney  properly 
instructed.'' 

By  direction  of  the  Governor, 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  53  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  427. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18  August  22,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

Subject:   Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R. 

1.  The  following  letter  received  from  the  Office  of  The  Pro- 
vost Marshal  General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guid- 
ance of  all  concerned : 

"1.  Pursuant  to  an  Act  of  Congress,  approved  July  9, 
1918,  which  relieves  neutral  declarants  from  liability  to 
military  service  on  certain  conditions,  Changes  No.  6, 
S.  S.  R.,  have  been  promulgated  today. 

"2.  The  suspension  of  involuntary  induction  of  any 
registrant  who  is  a  neutral  declarant,  directed  by  tele- 
gram No.  B  1971  of  July  10th  remains  effective  until  the 
day  specified  in  his  notice  on  P.  M.  G-.  0.  Form  No.  1042, 
prescribed  in  Section  No.  117-|,  S.  S.  R.,  as  contained  in 
Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R.,  and  in  the  case  of  any  such  regis- 
trant who  files  the  affidavit  prescribed  in  Section  No. 
117^,  S.  S.  R.,  withdrawing  his  intention  to  become  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States,  such  suspension  of  involun- 
tary induction  remains  effective  until  such  affidavit  has 
been  considered  according  to  the  procedure  directed  in 
Section  No.  117J  and  Rule  XII  (1)  Section  No.  79  as 
contained  in  Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R.,  and  the  registrant 
has  been  finally  classified  by  the  Local  Board  and  by  the 
District  Board  if  the  case  is  appealed. 

"3.  Please  transmit  the  above  information  to  all  Local 
and  District  Boards." 

2.  Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R.,  are  in  the  mails  from  Washing- 
ton and  will  be  distributed  as  soon  as  received. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  54  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  428. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18  August  22,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Questionnaires  to  Registrants  op  August  24, 1918. 

1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  21,  1918. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  2735.  Communicate  following  instructions 
to  all  Local  Boards  with  reference  to  procedure  following 
registration  August  24th : 

1.  Beginning  on  Monday,  August  26th,  Questionnaires 
of  second  edition  shall  be  sent  to  all  registrants  with  the 
provisions  of  Section  92  and  the  last  paragraph  of  Section 
!)!)  as  amended  of  Selective  Service  Regulations,  except  in 
mailing  Questionnaires  Local  Boards  shall  defer  making 
any  entries  of  classification  list  until  after  registration 
n  mnbers  and  order  numbers  have  been  assigned  in  accord- 
ance with  paragraph  three  telegram  B  2604  of  August 
13,  1918.  The  spaces  for  registration,  serial  and  order 
numbers  on  the  Questionnaires  shall  be  left  blank.  Reg- 
istration and  order  numbers  shall  be  filled  in  after  they 
have  been  determined  and  the  Questionnaires  are  returned. 
After  order  numbers  have  been  determined  the  names 
shall  be  entered  upon  the  classification  list  in  the  order 
of  their  liability  for  service  and  the  date  on  which  Ques- 
tionnaire was  mailed  to  each  registrant  shall  then  be 
entered  in  Column  Five  of  Classification  List.  For  this 
purpose  a  tentative  list  of  the  dates  on  which  Question- 
naires are  mailed  should  be  kept  by  each  Board.  In 
preparing  Form  ^^W  Section  92,  8.  S.  R.,  the  words  in 
the  beading  "  nnder  jurisdiction  of  this  Local  Board  whose 


—  55  — 

order  numbers  are  between  number  blank  and  number 
blank  inclusive,"  shall  be  stricken  out  and  these  words 
written  in  lieu  thereof:  "Important  notice  to  registrants 
who  registered  August  24,  1918."  Copies  of  Form  1002 
should  be  furnished  to  Local  Boards. 

2.  When  the  Adjutant  General  prepares  the  list  show- 
ing the  registration  numbers  assigned  to  cards  forwarded 
by  Local  Boards,  a  duplicate  of  each  list  forwarded  to  the 
respective  Local  Boards  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  Provost 
Marshal  General  for  the  purpose  of  a  record  of  the  number 
of  registrants. 

3.  It  is  necessary  that  greatest  expedition  be  used  in 
mailing  out  Questionnaires  and  in  classifying  registrants 
in  order  that  Class  One  men  for  the  September  calls  may 
be  available. 

Crowder. 
By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  429. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18  August  26,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject  :    Improper  Conduct  on  Trains. 
1 .  The  following  telegram  received  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  quoted  for  the  information   and  guidance   of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  D.  0.,  August  24,  1918. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  Calif 'orn  la . 

Number  E   2278.     Reports   received   from   the   United 
States  Railroad  Administration  disclose  grossly  improper 


—  56  — 

conduct  of  inducted  men  enroute  to  camp.  Instruei  Local 
Boards  at  once  to  see  that  provisions  of  Change!  Nfo.  7. 
Selective  Service  Regulations,  arc  fully  complied  with. 
If  brassards  mentioned  therein  have  not  been  received 
and  distributed  to  Local  Boards,  advise. 

Crowdkk. 
By  direction  oe  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  430. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-13  August  26,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Meal  Tickets. 

1.  The  Quartermaster  General  lias  authorized  the  incn 

of  minimum  allowances  for  meals  purchased  on  Selective  Ser- 
vice Meal  Tickets  to  Seventy-five  Cents  (75^). 

2.  Wherever  Local  Boards  issue  Meal  Tickets  they  will  can- 
cel the  figure  "60"  where  it  appears  on  the  Meal  Tickets  and 
place  above  it  the  figure  "75."  For  this  purpose  a  robber 
stamp   is   enclosed. 

3.  This  will  make  the  Meal  Tickel    read.   "Please  furnish 

to and other  selected  men  enroul 

one  meal  each  not  to  exceed  75  cents  per  meal. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 

The   Adjutant  General. 


—  57  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  431. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-13  August  28,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards:     • 

Subject:    Industrial  Index  Cards. 
1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C.,  August  28,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  E  2195.  Though  expressly  requested  not  to 
do  so  in  our  telegram  of  July  9,  1918,  Number  E  1765, 
Local  Boards  continue  to  transcribe  and  forward  Occupa- 
tional Cards  for  registrants  of  the  1918  Class.  Please 
take  such  steps  as  will  insure  the  discontinuance  of  this 
practice.  Furthermore  it  would  greatly  facilitate  our 
operations  here  if  Local  Boards  in  preparing  Form  1029, 
1029A,  1029B,  1029C  and  1029E,  would  distinguish  1917 
from  1918  registrants  by  entering  "1917"  or  "1918" 
respectively  opposite  names  thereon. 

Crowder. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  58  — 


Circular  Letter  No.  432. 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-13  August  28,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:   Report  on  Boards  of  Instruction. 
1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned: 

"Washington,  D.  C.,  August  28,  1918. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  E  2021.  Bulletinize  all  Local  Boards  as  fol- 
lows; Reference  Boards  of  Instruction  dealt  with  in 
Form  76  and  letter  of  July  4th,  from  this  office,  each 
Local  Board  is  directed  to  report  immediately  through  the 
State  Adjutant  General  as  follows:  First,  NAMES, 
ADDRESSES,  and  OCCUPATIONS  of  persons  appointed 
to  Board  of  Instruction,  and  name  of  chairman  ;  secondly, 
NAME  of  board  member  if  any  especially  in  charge  of 
the  several  branches  of  instruction.  Boards  which  already 
have  forwarded  such  report  to  this  office  need  not  again 
report;  but  hereafter  all  communications  reporting  or 
asking  for  information  should  be  forwarded  through 
State  Adjutant  General.  Printed  bulletins  on  above  sub- 
jects will  shortly  issue  from  this  office  to  each  Hoard  of 
[nstruction.  In  view  of  the  expected  Labors  of  Docal 
Board  members  in  the  work  of  classification  of  the  new 
registrants,  it  is  recommended  thai  the  Boards  of  Instruc- 
tion be  completely  organized  as  soon  as  possible,  so  thai 
no  personal  labor  at  all  in  connection  with  that  subject 
need  be  expected  of  the  Local  Board  membera  themselves. 

Crowder. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.   J.    BORRKK. 

Brigadier  General,  N 

The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  433. 


—  59  — 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

13  August  29,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Facilities  for  September  Registration. 
1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all   concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  28,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  D  296.  Advise  all  Local  Boards  that  special 
attention  should  be  given  to  furnishing  facilities  for  the 
September  Registration  in  close  proximity  to  their  work 
of  men  residing  in  congested  districts  surrounding  large 
industrial  enterprises  such  as  shipbuilding,  munition 
plants,  etc. 

Crowder. 

By  direction  op  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C., 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  60  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  434. 

STATE  OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-12  August  29,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Industrial  Index  Cards. 
1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal Genera]  is  ((noted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  1).  C.,  August  28,  1918, 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  Calif  or  v  In. 

Number  E  2302.  Telegram  E  2195  of  August  26,  1918, 
is  hereby  canceled  and  reissued  t<>  read  as  follows: 
Though  expressly  requested  not  to  do  so  in  our  telegram 
of  -Inly  9,  1918,  Number  E  1765.  Local  Boards  continue 
to  transcribe  and  forward  Occupational  ('aids  for  regis- 
trants of  the  1918  Class.  Please  take  such  steps  as  will 
insure  the  immediate  discontinuance  of  this  practice. 
Furthermore,  it  would  greatly  facilitate  our  operations 
Local  Boards  in  preparing  1029,  L029A  and  1029B  Forms, 
would  distinguish  1917  from  1918  registrants  by  entering 
"1917"  or  "1918"  respectively  opposite  names  reported 
thereon.  Since  Occupational  Cards  for  1918  registrants 
are  not  desired  Form  1029F  for  these  registrants  should 
not  be  used. 

Crowder. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  61  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  435. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18  August  29,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

fl.  Induction  of  British. 
Subject:     -J2.  Induction  of  Declarants. 

[3.  Work  or  Fight  Not  Part  of  Classification. 

1.  The  following  telegram  received  from  The  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C,  August  28,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Havramento,  California. 
Number  D   293. 

1.  Communicate  the  following  instructions  in  full  to  all 
Local  Boards  in  your  State :  Examine  the  registration 
cards  of  all  persons  who  registered  on  August  24th,  or 
since  that  date,  in  pursuance  of  the  President's  Proclama- 
tion of  August  13th,  and  place  in  a  separate  file  the  cards 
of  all  British  subjects,  including  Canadians,  whether  de- 
clarants or  nondeclarants.  Until  further  notice,  make 
such  cards  available  for  inspection  by  properly  accredited 
representatives  of  the  British  and  Canadian  Recruiting 
Mission.  In  order  to  comply  with  the  terms  of  the  con- 
ventions this  Country  has  ratified  with  Great  Britain  and 
Canada,  the  involuntary  induction  of  every  such  person 
shall  be  suspended  until  and  including  September  23, 
1918.  The  statement  of  a  registrant  on  his  registration 
card  that  he  is  a  .subject  of  Great  Britain  or  a  Canadian 
shall  be  sufficient  evidence  of  his  nationality,  unless  the 
Local  Board  is  satisfied  that  such  statement  is  untrue. 
In  this  connection  attention  is  invited  to  my  Telegram 


—  62  — 

B  1974  and  the  amendment  to  Paragraph  "II.""  Section 
151,  S.  S.  K.,  announced  therein. 

2.  Attention  is  also  invited  to  Section  117.1,  S.  S.  R  . 
embodied  in  printed  Changes  No.  &,  S.  S.  R.,  which  directs 
the  stay  of  involuntary  induction  of  any  registrant  who 
is  a  subject  of  a  Country  neutral  in  the  present  War  who 
has  declared  his  intention  to  become  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States.  Form  1042  and  two  copied  of  blank  Form 
1041  shall  be  mailed  to  every  such  registrant  who  regis- 
tered on  August  24th  or  since  in  pursuance  to  the  Procla- 
mation of  August  13th,  and  such  other  action  shall  be 
taken  in  respect  of  such  registrant  as  is  prescribed  in 
Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R. 

3.  In  the  administration  and  enforcement  of  Sections 
121A  to  121L,  S.  S.  R.,  which  provide  for  the  withdrawal 
of  deferred  classification  and  order  number  of  registrants 
found  to  be  idlers  or  engaged  in  nonproductive  occupa- 
tions or  employments,  it  should  be  borne  in  mind  that 
these  Sections  do  not  constitute  in  any  respect  a  part  of 
the  classification  rules  and  procedure.  Said  Sections  of 
the  rules  are  not  to  be  applied  until  after  classification  of 
a  registrant  and  then  only  in  respect  to  registrants  who 
are  engaged  in  occupations  enumerated  in  Section  121K 
and  are  in  deferred  classification  because  of  dependents 
or  have  late  order  numbers.  Said  Sections  121 A  to  121L 
are  not  to  be  invoked  until  final  action  in  respect  of  classi- 
fication of  a  registrant  has  been  taken  and  a  reasonable 
time  has  elapsed  thereafter  to  permit  a  change  of  employ- 
ment. 

Crowder. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G. 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  63  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  436. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5D-17. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Compensation  of  Local  Board  Members. 
The  following  telegram  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance 
of  all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  C.,  August  28,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

1.  You  may  announce  to  all  Local  Boards  that  the 
following  plan  of  compensation  to  Local  Boards  has  been 
adopted  and  that  Regulations  and  Instructions  will  be 
issued  in  the  near  future. 

2.  For  all  services  over  and  above  classification  and 
registration  between  March  first  and  June  thirtieth,  1918, 
three  dollars  to  each  Local  Board  for  each  Registrant  in- 
ducted into  Service  during  said  period  and  accepted  in 
camp,  which  will  be  payable  one  dollar  to  each  Board 
Member  per  each  man  so  inducted,  or  otherwise  distrib- 
uted among  Board  Members  in  accordance  with  detailed 
instructions  to  issue. 

3.  For  services  rendered  between  July  first  and  August 
thirty-first,  1918,  in  addition  to  the  existing  allowance  of 
thirty  cents  per  questionnaire  finally  classified,  and  in 
addition  to  per  diem  for  registration,  the  same  compensa- 
tion as  above  stated,  namely,  three  dollars  to  each  Board 
for  each  Registrant  inducted  and  accepted  at  camp  be- 
tween July  first  and  August  thirty-first,  under  the  same 
rules  and  conditions  as  expressed  in  foregoing. 

4.  On  and  after  September  first,  1918,  all  pre-existing 
regulations  concerning  compensation  of  Local  Boards  will 


—  64  — 

cease  to  be  effective,  and  from  and  after  September  first, 
1918,  such  Board  Members  will  be  paid  a  compensation  of 
one  dollar  per  hour,  not  to  exceed  ten  ($10)  dollars  per  day 
or  two  hundred  ($200)  dollars  per  month  for  any  Member ; 
the  maximum  compensation  allowable  per  Board  to  be 
graduated  according;  to  the  number  of  Registrants  in  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  respective  Boards,  the  scale  beginning 
with  small  Boards  of  one  thousand  Registrants  or  under, 
which  Boards  may  receive  a  maximum  compensation  of 
one  hundred  fifty  dollars  ($150)  per  month  per  Board, 
or  fifty  dollars  ($50)  per  month  per  Member;  the  top  of 
the  scale  being  Boards  with  seven  thousand  Registrants 
and  over,  which  may  receive  compensation  of  six  hundred 
dollars  ($600)  per  month  per  Board;  such  compensation 
to  be  divided  equally,  one-third  of  the  same  to  go  to  each 
Member,  or  otherwise  distributed  among  Board  Members 
as  set  forth  in  paragraph  one. 

5.  The  foregoing  is  a  mere  outline  and  preliminary 
statement  which  will  be  followed  by  definite  Regulations 
and  Instructions,  and  no  compensation  is  to  be  paid  under 
the  foregoing  announcement  nor  until  the  Regulations  are 
received  and  fully  complied  with. 

Crowder. 

In  accordance  with  the  above,  we  would  advise  all  Boards 
having  claims  for  services  performed  in  the  Registration  and 
Selection  dating  from  June  fifth  (present  registration),  to 
withhold  same  until  the  new  Regulations  and  Instructions  are 
received. 

By  dikkction  op  the  Govkunok. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  <!.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General 
August  29,  1918. 


—  65  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  437. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18.  August  30,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Cure  op  Remediable  Defectives. 

Various  Local  Boards  are  asking  numerous  questions  re- 
garding the  correction  of  remediable  defects.  For  the  infor- 
mation of  such  Boards,  the  following  is  published: 

There  is  no  method  by  which  men  who  are  not  inducted  into 
Military  Service  can  be  forced  to  undergo  operations  for  the 
correction  of  remediable  defects.  Such  operations  must  be 
taken  voluntarily.  It  is  believed,  however,  that  proper  pub- 
licity and  proper  calls  on  the  patriotism  of  the  men  and  their 
own  regard  for  their  own  welfare  will  lead  many  men  to 
undergo  operations  where  such  operations  will  benefit  them 
physically.  It  is  recommended  that  each  of  your  remediable 
defectives  be  sent  a  letter  giving  him  complete  details  of  the 
arrangements  which  have  been  made. 

When  a  registrant  presents  himself  to  the  Local  Board,  the 
Board  should  explain  to  him  that  he  will  be  sent  to  the  Medical 
Advisory  Board,  who  will  refer  him  to  the  surgeons  best  able 
to  correct  his  particular  type  of  defect.  These  surgeons  will 
make  the  corrections  without  charge.  The  Medical  Advisory 
Board  will  also  designate  the  hospital  to  which  the  man  is  to 
be  sent.  The  man's  hospital  bills  will  be  paid  by  the  State. 
There  will  be  no  charge  of  any  kind  to  the  man  himself. 

If  the  man  volunteers  to  have  the  correction  made,  the  Local 
Board  will  instruct  the  registrant  to  prepare  his  business  for 
his  absence  for  a  period  of  approximately  thirty  days,  and 
the  Local  Board  will  also  inform  the  Medical  Advisory  Board 

5—40868 


—  66  — 

thai  the  man  is  prepared  to  undergo  the  necessary  operation. 
giving  the  Medical  Advisory  Board  all  possible  information 
and  sending  a  copy  of  Form  1010,  showing  the  man's  physical 
examination  record.  The  Medical  Advisory  Board  will  then 
inform  the  Local  Board  on  what  date  the  man  is  to  report. 

No  man  should  be  sent  to  the  Medical  Advisory  Board  who 
is  not  prepared  to  immediately  undergo  the  necessary  operation 
or  who  is  not  prepared  to  remain  in  the  hospital  for  the 
length  of  time  necessary  to  effect  a  complete  and  proper  cure. 
Be  sure  of  this  before  you  send  the  man  to  the  Medical  Ad- 
visory Board. 

After  the  cure,  the  registrant  will  be  placed  in  the  list  of 
men  available  for  General  Military  Service.  It  will,  of  cot, 
be  necessary  for  the  surgeons  to  complete  a  new  set  of  Form 
1010  for  the  man  after  his  discharge  from  the  hospital,  inas- 
much as  the  old  Form  1010  will  show  that  the  man  is  a  d< 
tive.  Do  not  attempt  to  make  the  corrections  on  Form  1010 
yourself,  but  have  this  done  by  your  Medical  Examim 

Your  attention  is  also  directed  to  the  fact  that  you  should 
not  send  for  correction  any  man  in  a  deferred  classification 
who  does  not,  prior  to  his  being  sent,  sign  the  proper  waiver  of 
his  deferred  classification.  It  is  not  desired  to  correct  the 
remediable  defects  of  the  entire  population,  but  to  correct  only 
those  of  men  who  are  willing  and  able  to  become  soldiers  im- 
mediately after  the  cure  is  accomplished. 

By    DJBEOTION   Off   THE   GOTOBNOB. 

J.  J.   BOHHi 


Brigadier  <  leneral,  X 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  67  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  438. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5  13  August  30,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General  is 
published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned: 
From:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  in  all  States. 

Subject  :    Transportation  Requests. 

1.  The  Acting  Manager  of  the  Military  Committee, 
Southwestern  Passenger  Association,  under  date  of  Au- 
gust 10th.  complains  that  Local  Boards  are  not  preparing 
transportation  requests  in  accordance  with  the  instruc- 
tions issued  by  this  office  in  general  letter  dated  June  7, 
1918,  which  failure  to  follow  instructions  compels  men  to 
travel  in  day  coaches  when  they  are  entitled  to  travel  in 
Pullman  or  Tourist  cars. 

2.  It  is  requested  that  attention  of  Local  Boards  be  again 
en  lied  to  the  instructions  regarding  issuance  of  these 
transportation  requests,  especially  that  portion  in  regard 
to  additional  fare,  charged  when  travel  is  in  Pullman  or 
Tourist  cars.  It  should  be  understood  that  this  extra 
fare  does  not  go  to  the  Pullman  Company,  but  is  an  extra 
charge  imposed  by  the  U.  S.  Railroad  Administration  on 
account  of  Pullman  or  Tourist  travel;  therefore,  in  every 
ease  where  inducted  men  are  to  travel  by  Pullman  or 
Tourist  cars,  the  request  for  transportation  should  have 
entered  the  words  '  *  With  standard  sleeping  car  increase, ' ' 
or  "With  tourist  increase,"  as  the  case  may  require,  and 
a  separate  request  be  issued  for  the  Pullman  or  Tourist 
berth. 

Crowder. 

By   DIRECTION   OF   THE   GOVERNOR. 

J.  J.  BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  6S  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  439. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-13  August  30,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  Medical  Advisory  Hon  ids: 

The  following  letter  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General  is 
published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned : 

From  :  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To :       All  Draft  Executives. 

Subject:   Mental  Defectives. 

1.  General  Pershing  recently  cabled  the  "War  Depart- 
ment as  follows:  ''Prevalence  of  mental  disorders  in 
replacement  troops  recently  received  suggests  urgent  im- 
portance of  eliminating  mentally  unfit  from  organizations 
new  draft  prior  to  departure  from  United  States." 

2.  This  information  should  be  transmitted  to  medical 
examiners  through  the  Medical  Aide,  by  incorporation 
in  your  next  bulletin. 

Crowder. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  69  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  440. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5.I8.  August  31,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards  and  -Medical  Advisory  Boards: 

Subject  :  October  Calls. 
The  following  telegram  received  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  quoted  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

Washington,  D.  C.,  August  30,  1918. 
Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  E  twenty-three  fifteen. 

1.  Referring  to  my  telegram,  B  twenty-seven  thirty-five, 
attention  is  directed  to  the  fact  that  October  Calls  will  be 
extremely  hard  to  fill  and  will  severely  test  the  ability  of 
the  Selective  Service  Machinery  to  produce  men. 

2.  The  men  qualified  for  General  Military  Service  in 
Class  1  of  the  June  5,  1917,  and  the  June  5,  1918,  registra- 
tions will  be  practically  exhausted  on  September  30. 
While  calls  have  not  issued  for  all  the  men  included 
therein,  additional  calls  will  be  announced  shortly  for 
entrainment  during  the  latter  part  of  September. 

3.  The  early  October  Calls  must  be  filled  from  men  who 
registered  on  August  24.  This  will  require  unusual  effort 
on  the  part  of  Local  and  District  Boards. 

4.  The  entrainment  under  October  Calls  will  probably 
be  during  the  first  week  in  October.  As  it  will  be  impos- 
sible to  obtain  a  Class  1  report  in  time  to  make  this  Call, 
the  initial  October  quotas  for  General  Service  men  will 
be  apportioned  so  as  not  to  exceed  fifty  per  cent  of  the 
August  24  registration  report  from  your  State,  and  later 
calls  will  be  used  to  exhaust  the  remaining  Class  1. 

5.  In  order  that  the  August  24  registrants  may  be 
available  for  call   at  the   earliest  possible  moment,  the 


—  70  — 

Presidenl  directs  that  the  first  paragraph  of  Section  122, 
S.  S.  E.,  be  suspended  until  further  orders  and  the  fol- 
lowing procedure  substituted  therefor: 

Physical  Examination. 

Immediately  upon  classification  m  Class  1  by  the  Local 
Hoard  of  any  registrant  of  the  August  24  Class,  in  behalf 
of  whom  no  claim  has  been  made  for  deferred  classification 
on  the  ground  of  engagement  in  industry  or  agriculture, 
and  regardless  of  any  appeal  to  the  District  Board  in  his 
case,  the  Local  Board  shall  mail  to  the  last  known  address 
of  any  such  registrant  so  placed  in  Class  1  a  notice  (Form 
1009)  to  appear  for  physical  examination  at  a  time  and 
place  to  be  designated  in  said  notice  (which  time  shall  be 
five  days  from  the  date  of  the  mailing  of  the  notice),  and 
shall  enter  the  date  of  mailing  of  said  notice  in  Column  19 
of  the  Classification  List.  Immediately  after  the  District 
Board  has  placet!  a  registrant  on  the  August  24  Class  in 
Class  1  by  whom  or  in  whose  behalf  a  claim  has  been  made 
on  agricultural  or  industrial  grounds,  the  procedure  re- 
specting his  immediate  physical  examination  outlined 
above  will  be  followed.  Nothing  in  these  instructions 
shall  be  construed  as  authorizing  the  physical  examination 
of  any  registrant  of  the  August  24  Class  who  is  in  a 
deferred  class  on  any  grounds. 

6.  No  registrant  shall  be  inducted  into  Military  Service. 
however,  if  he  has  appealed  his  case  to  the  District  Board 
until  he  is  finally  classified  by  the  District  Board.  In- 
struct District  Boards  to  give  immediate  attention  to  these 
cases. 

7.  Every  effort  must  be  made  to  complete  in  ample 
time  for  October  1  entrainment  the  classification  and 
physical  examination  of  the  August  24,  1918,  registrants. 

Cbowdjer. 

By  direction  op  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  71  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  441. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-18.  August  31,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards  and  Medical  Advisory  Boards: 

Subject:  Duplicate  Forms  1010. 

1.  Frequent  complaints  have  been  made  to  this  Office  that 
Examining  Surgeons  have  been  using  carbons  in  making  out 
the  Form  1010.  This  should  not  be  done.  Each  copy  should 
be  made  so  that  there  can  be  no  question  about  its  contents. 
It  should  be  made  legible  and  certain. 

2.  Whenever  carbons  are  used,  .great  difficulty  is  experi- 
enced in  reading  the  second  and  third  copies. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  442. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

S-20  September  3,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Regulations  for  Examining  Physicians. 
1.  All  Boards  are  required  to  see  that  each  of  their  Examin- 
ing Physicians  is  furnished  with  a  copy  of  Form  75.     Notify 
this  Office  at  once  as  to  the  number  of  additional  copies  of 


—  72  — i 

this  Form  that  you  will  need  to  comply  with  the  above.     This 
is  important  and  should  be  given  immediate  attention. 

2.  Also  the  Chairman  of  each  Board  should  impress  upon  the 
Medical  Examiner  the  absolute,  necessity  for  thorough  study 
of  these  regulations  by  each  and  every  Medical  Examiner.  It 
is  only  by  this  means  that  their  examinations  can  be  bettered 
and  the  percentage  of  rejections  at  mobilization  camps  be 
lessened. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C 
The  Adjutant  General. 

By  H.  H.  Sherk. 
-  1st  Lieut.,  M.  R.  C. 
Medical  Aide  to  The  Governor. 


Circular  Letter  No.  443. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

To  all  Local,  District,  Medical  Advisory,  and  Legal  Advisory 
Boards  and  Government  Appeal  Agents: 

Si  lUECT:     CORRESPONDENCE. 

1.  Your  attention  is  called  to  the  necessity  of  addri 

all  communications  relating  to  drafl  matters  to  The  Adjutant 
General,  who  is  the  Drafl  Executive  of  the  State,  acting  under 
orders  of  the  Governor. 

2.  Frequently  Letters  are  addressed  to  the  Governor,  The 
Medical  Aide  and  to  General  J.  J.  Borree  personally  and  in 
consequence,  answers  much  delayed  and  sometimes  entirely 
overlooked. 


—  73  — 

3.  The  importance  of  observing  this  request  can  not  be  over- 
estimated. The  mail  that  comes  to  this  Office  should  be  official 
and  if  it  is  personal,  it  should  be  so  marked,  otherwise,  the 
clerks  will  open  it  and  it  will  be  treated  in  a  routine  manner. 

4.  There  are  from  five  hundred  to  a  thousand  pieces  of 
mail  passing  through  this  Office  each  day  and  by  strict  adher- 
ence to  the  above  request,  the  Boards  will  naturally  lessen  the 
labors  and  annoyance  of  misplaced  correspondence  and  add  to 
the  efficiency  of  all  concerned. 

5.  Resignations,  requests  for  appointments  of  physicians, 
complaints  and  requests  for  rulings,  should  never  be  sent  to 
an  individual  but  always  to  this  Office,  so  that  a  clear  right  of 
way  may  be  given. 

6.  Please  see  that  all  chief  clerks  are  properly  instructed  in 
relation  to  the  foregoing. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
Thft  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  444. 

(Supplementing  our  letter  of  August  22d.) 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12  September  3,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  In  Regard  to  Group  B  Registrants. 
When  Group  B  men  report  to  your  Board,  if  they  consent 
to  have  remediable  treatment  of  their  several  defects,  instruct 


—  74  — 

them  to  report  to  the  Medical  Advisory  Board  of  your  District 
either  in  person  or  otherwise,  so  they  may  be  assigned  to  the 
proper  place  for  treatment.     If  the  registrant  at   a 

distance  from  the  Medical  Advisory  Board,  he  should  report 
by  letter  to  save  unnecessary  transportation  expel 

The  various  registrants  will  be  assigned  to  hospitals,  most 
convenient  to  their  places  of  residence,  with  which  arrange- 
ments have  been  made  to  care  for  them. 

All  means  possible  should  be  made  to  encourage  and  per- 
suade these  Group  B  men  to  submit  to  treatment 

Send  to  your  respective  Medical  Advisory   Boards  i  com- 
plete list  of  all  Group  B,  Class  1  men.  stating  name,  add 
Serial   Number  and  physical    disability   together   with   a   copy 
of  Form  1010,  so  that  the  Medical  Advisory  Board  can  tally 
up  those  that  report. 

Notification  cards  to  be  sent  to  each  Group  B  registrant  are 
being  sent  you. 

When  a  registrant  has  completely  convalesced  and  is  in  tit 
condition  for  military  service,  the  Medical  Advisory  Board 
will  so  notify  his  Local  Board  and  the  registrant  will  report 
hack  to  his  Local  Board  for  induction  into  service. 

Instructions  in  regard  to  handling  registrants  who  abso- 
lutely refuse  treatment  will  be  sent  you  later. 

Note  slight  change  from  Circular  Letter  No.  437  regarding 
Listing  of  registrants  to  Medical  Advisory  Board. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  75  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  445. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  3,  1918. 

To  all  Medical  Advisory  Boards: 

Subject:  Supplemental  to  Our  Letter  of  August  22,  in 
Regard  to  Group  B  Registrants. 

Local  Boards  have  been  instructed  to  send  to  you  lists  of 
all  Class  1,  Group  B,  men,  including  data  as  to  name,  address 
and  disability,  together  with  a  copy  of  Form  1010.  They  will 
instruct  the  individual  registrant  to  report  to  you  either  in 
person  or  otherwise. 

When  the  registrant  reports  to  you  he  shall  be  assigned  for 
treatment  to  the  hospital  most  convenient  to  his  place  of 
residence.  The  Medical  Advisory  Board  should  exercise  due 
consideration,  discretion  and  judgment  in  making  these  assign- 
ments, first  having  made  arrangements  with  the  various  hos- 
pitals to  care  for  these  registrants  for  fees  within  the  limit 
considered  by  this  office  as  reasonable,  namely,  $14.00  per  week 
for  ward-bed  and  $5.00  for  operating-room  charge.  These 
prices  will  have  to  be  varied  with  discretion  according  to 
localities  and  are  expected  to  be  as  low  as  it  is  possible  for  the 
hospital  to  make.     The  hospitals  are  not  expected  to  profit. 

The  Medical  Advisory  Board  will  also  select  the  attending 
physician  or  surgeon,  as  the  State  can  not  be  placed  in  a 
position- for  paying  for  incompetent  service. 

The  registrants  operated  upon  must  take  all  reasonable  pre- 
caution during  their  convalescence  to  insure  good  results,  and 
the  attending  physicians  are  expected  to  see  to  this  matter. 

Hernia  cases  must  be  kept  flat  in  bed  for  three  weeks  and 
not  allowed  to  stand  or  walk  short  of  four  weeks  from  the 
date  of  operation.  Varicocele  cases  should  be  kept  off  their 
feet  for  two  weeks  following  operation. 


—  76  — 

Weekly  reports  of  all  cases  operated  upon  shall  be  made  to 
this  office. 

All  registrants  must  be  kept  under  observation  or  control, 
through  the  attending  physician,  so  that  they  can  be  inducted 
into  service  as  soon  as  thoroughly  convalescent  and  fit  for  the 
strain  of  camp  life  and  training.  This  should  vary  from  a 
couple  of  weeks  for  minor  disabilities  to  from  two  and  a  half 
to  three  months  for  hernias. 

When  a  registrant  is  thoroughly  convalescent  and  ready  for 
service  he  should  be  instructed  to  report  back  to  his  Local 
Board.     His  Local  Board  should  be  notified  to  that  effect. 

Remediable  treatment  is  held  to  mean  surgical,  medical  and 
dental.  All  medical  and  surgical  service  is  expected  to  be 
rendered  without  compensation.  Dentists  will  be  reimbursed 
for  materials  used. 

Instructions  in  regard  to  handling  registrants  who  abso- 
lutely refuse  treatment  will  be  sent  you  later. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  446. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12  Septemb.r   I.   1918. 

To  <tll  M<  d'nal  Advisory  and  Local  Hoards 
<t>i<l  their  Medical  Examiners: 

Subject:    Preparation  fob  the  [mpendenq  Db 
The  following  excerpt*  from  a  circular  letter  from  the  Pro- 
vost  Marshal  General's  Office  is  published  I'm-  the  information 


—  77  — 

of  all  concerned  and  should  be  brought  by  all  Boards  to  the 
careful  attention  of  all  their  Medical  Examiners: 

"1.  It  is  anticipated  that,  pursuant  to  legislation  now 
pending,  a  very  large  registration  will  be  made  in  Sep- 
tember. 

2.  As  the  entire  work  incident  to  this  new  draft  must 
necessarily  be  compressed  within  a  very  few  weeks,  the 
machinery  of  the  draft  must  be  repaired,  oiled,  and  other- 
wise put  in  perfect  condition  to  function  at  high  speed 
and  with  efficiency. 

3.  It  must  not  be  said  afterward  that  the  medical  parte 
of  the  machine  were  weaker  than  the  rest,  nor  that  their 
slow  or  imperfect  action  resulted  in  delay. 

4.  To  the  end  that  the  greatest  efficiency  may  be  had, 
therefore,  and  the  greatest  credit  accrue  to  those  con- 
cerned with  the  medical  operations  of  the  draft,  Medical 
Aides  are  instructed  immediately  to  establish  closer  rela- 
tions with  all  medical  examiners;  to  urge  upon  them  the 
enormous  importance  of  the  matter;  to  make  them  realize 
that  the  coming  test  will  be  the  greatest  in  the  history  of 
the  draft;  and  to  impress  upon  them  the  fact  that  the 
efficiency  of  our  overseas  armies  depends  vitally  upon  the 
way  in  which  the  test  is  met  by  THEM. 

5.  A  careful  but  rapid  survey  must  be  made  of  all 
medical  examiners  of  Local  Boards.  "Weak  examiners 
must  be  replaced;  slow  ones  must  be  speeded  up.  Assist- 
ance must  be  arranged  for  where  needed.  All  must  be 
made  to  realize  the  emergency. 

6.  Medical  Advisory  Boards  must  be  instructed  that 
examinations  must  be  promptly  made,  and  the  papers 
returned  at  once.  All  examiners  must  be  made  aware 
that  defects  which  arc  obvious  even  to  a  layman,  reflect 
discredit  on  the  board  as  well  as  on  the  system. 

7.  A  force  of  inspectors  has  recently  been  organized  in 
connection  with  the  draft.  The  Provost  Marshal  General 
contemplates  that  these  inspectors  shall,  as  a  part  of  their 
duties,  make  inquiries  concerning  the  knowledge  of  Medi- 
cal Aides  as  to  the  efficiency  and  preparedness  of  their 
medical  examiners  throughout  the  State. 


—  78  — 

s.  The  medical  profession,  in  its  intimate  relation  to 
i  li<-  draft,  baa  me1  and  discharged  its  obligations  for  the 
mosl    pari    in   an   admirable   manner,     h    most    not    fail 


ll  is  hardly  accessary  that  this  oilier  reiterate  what  the  Medi- 
cal  Aide  to  the  Governor  has  said  to  von   personally  when 

visiting  the  Local  Board  as  to  the  responsibility  of  all  Medical 
Examiners. 

Thorough,  conscientious  and  complete  examinations  most  be 
made.  Every  examiner  should  study  his  Form  75  and  become 
conversant  with  its  contents.  Only  in  this  way  can  his  work 
be  efficient  and  efficiency  is  the  Key  Note  of  successful  results. 
Our  Army  can  not  be  efficient  if  our  examiners  are  inefficient. 

All  Boards  are  instructed  and  urged  to  report  at  oner  to 
tins  office  all  inefficiency,  inaccuracy,  delinquency  and  lack  of 
interest  on  the  part  of  any  of  their  examiners. 

Plans  are  under  way  for  Instruction  Conferences  of  the 
examiners  of  Hie  Local  and  Advisory  Boards  to  be  held  at  an 
early  date  in  San   Krancisco  and   Los  Angi 


liY    DIRECTION    OF    THE   GOVERNOR. 


J.   J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  79  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  447. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  10,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Plan  of  Compensation  for  Clerical  Hire. 

The  following  telegram  from  the  office  of  the  Provost  Mar- 
shal General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned: 

Washington,  D.  0.,  September  0,  1918. 
Adjutant  Gt  m  tal, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  C  four  hundred  fourteen.  You  may  announce 
to  all  Local  Boards  that  the  following  plan  of  compensa- 
tion for  clerical  services  of  Local  Boards  has  been  adopted 
and  Regulations  and  Instructions  will  be  issued  in  the 
near  future  that  a  maximum  allowance  for  clerical  serv- 
ices for  each  Board  will  be  made  by  the  month,  to  be 
determined  by  the  number  of  registrants  under  jurisdic- 
tion of  Board  on  twentieth  of  the  month  for  which  allow- 
ance is  made.  That  no  clerk  shall  be  paid  in  excess  of 
one  hundred  dollars  a  month  without  special  written 
authority  from  the  Governor.  That  any  balance  remain- 
ing of  monthly  allowance  made  to  any  Board  may  be 
carried  forward  from  month  to  month  to  the  credit  of  the 
Board,  to  be  expended  by  them  for  additional  clerical 
services  when  required.  The  monthly  allowances  are 
graduated  from  a  minimum  of  One  Hundred  Dollars  to  a 
Board  of  fourteen  hundred  and  under,  rising  gradually 
to  One  Hundred  Seventy  Dollars  for  a  Board  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  registrants,  One  Hundred  Ninety-five  Dollars 
for  a  Board  of  three  thousand  registrants,  Two  Hundred 
Thirty-five  Dollars  for  a  Board  of  four  thousand  regis- 
trants, Two  Hundred  Seventy  Dollars  for  a  Board  of  five 
thousand  registrants,  Three  Hundred  Five  Dollars  for  a 


—  80  — 

•Board  of  six  thousand  registrants,  Three  Hundred  Thirty- 
five  for  a  Board  of  seven  thousand  registrants,  Three  Hun- 
dred Sixty-five  Dollars  for  a  Board  of  eight  thousand 
registrants,  Three  Hundred  Ninety  Dollars  for  a  Board  of 
nine  thousand  registrants,  Four  Hundred  Fifteen  Dollars 
for  a  Board  of  ten  thousand  registrants,  and  so  on.  Fur- 
ther details  by  mail. 

(  Ibowdsb. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G. 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  448. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  10,  1918. 

To  all  Local,  District,  Medical  Advisory 

and  Legal  Advisory  Boards  and  Appeal  Agents: 

For  the  information  of  all  concerned: 

You  are  hereby  advised  that  Local  Board  for  Imperial 
County  has  been  transferred  from  the  jurisdiction  of  Medical 
Advisory  Board  No.  1,  San  Bernardino,  to  Medical  Advisory 
Board  No.  2,  San  Diego. 

By  direction  op  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  81  — 


Circular  Letter  No.  449. 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  10,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  circular  letter  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From  :  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject:  Form  1010  for  Unconditionally  Rejected 
Registrants. 

1.  It  has  become  necessary  to  furnish  to  the  Surgeon 
General  of  the  Army  one  copy  of  Form  1010  in  every  case 
covering  a  registrant  who  has  been  finally  classified  in 
V  (G)  by  reason  of  being  totally  and  permanently  physi- 
cally or  mentally  unfit  for  military  service. 

2.  You  are  requested  to  instruct  all  Local  Boards  to 
send  to  you,  at  once,  and  in  one  shipment,  one  copy  of 
every  such  Form  1010,  covering  case  of  registrant  who  has 
been  finally  classified  in  V  (G).  You  are  further  re- 
quested to  instruct  all  Local  Boards  to  forward  to  you, 
in  the  same  manner,  and  once  in  every  month,  one  copy 
of  each  of  said  forms  covering  case  of  registrant  who  has 
been  finally  classified  in  V  (G),  accumulated  in  the  files 
of'  said  Local  Boards  subsequently  to  said  first  general 
shipment. 

3.  As  soon  as  may  be  practicable,  after  the  receipt  by 
you  from  the  Local  Boards,  you  will  forward  such  forms 
addressed  to  the  office  of  the  Surgeon  General  of  the 
Army,  Washington,  D.  C.  It  is  desired  that  a  complete 
record  be  kept  by  you  of  the  execution  of  this  order. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

liY    DIRECTION  OF    THE   GOVERNOR, 

J.  J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 
s  i 


—  82  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  450. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12  September  LO,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

The  following  circular  letter  from  the  Provost  .Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of 
all  concerned: 

From:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
T<>:       Draft  Executives  of  all  States, 

Subject  :  Loss  of  Medical  Examiners  of  Draft  Boards. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  addressed  to  the  Surgeon 
General  of  the  Army.  The  reply  of  that  official  is  contained 
in  the  first  indorsement. 

1.  The  organization  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General's 
Office  for  the  physical  examination  of  draft  registrant! 
has  been  greatly  disturbed  recently,  by  the  withdrawal 
of  medical  members  of  draft  boards  for  other  duti 

2.  The  most  serious  drain  of  this  nature  has  ensued  by 
reason  of  the  commissioning  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps 
of  the  Army,  of  many  medical  board  members.  During 
July,  1918,  106  physicians  have  been  lost  from  boards  in 
this  way. 

3.  In  view  of  the  enormous  labor  involved  in  the  antici- 
pated registration  and  examination  of  fourteen  millions 
of  men  in  the  next  few  months,  under  anticipated  Legis- 
lation, this  office  Peels  very  Btrongly  thai  its  needs  am 
paramount. 

4.  It  is,  therefore,  requested  that  the  commissioning  of 
medical  members  of  i\vn\'\  hoards  he  discontinued  tor  the 
present,  except    in   instances  where  this  office  Consents 

r>.  It  is  suggested  that  before  commissioning  medical 
men.  inquiry  he  made  by  the  Surgeon  General  as  t<» 
whether  or  not  the  condidate  is  associated  with  the  draft 


—  83  — 

If  the  reply  is  affirmative,  the  case  should  be  referred  to 
this  office  for  remark. 

6.  The  Provost  Marshal  General's  Office  does  not  wish 
to  hinder  the  use  of  available  medical  material  for  general 
Army  service,  but  must  preserve  its  own  organization. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  451. 

STATE    OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  10,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  District  Boards: 

The  following  circular  letter  from  the  Provost  Marshal 
General  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

From  :  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:       Draft  Executives  of  all  States  and  the  Territories  of 
Alaska  and  Hawaii. 
Subject:  Final  Classification  Cards. 

1.  During  the  course  of  a  campaign  against  draft 
evaders,  recently  held  in  one  of  the  Eastern  cities,  a  large 
number  of  men  were  detained  by  the  police  authorities 
for  failure  to  present  proper  evidence  of  compliance  with 
the  Selective  Service  Law.  In  the  examination  of  these 
men  the  following  conditions  were  found: 


—  84  — 

2.  A  number  of  men  had  been  given  proper  deferred 
classification  by  their  Local  Boards,  but  had  not  received 
a  classification  notice  of  any  description. 

3.  A  considerable  number  of  men  had  received  pre- 
liminary notice  of  classification  (Form  1005),  but  had 
never  received  Form  1007,  final  notice  of  Final  Classi- 
fication. 

4.  A  number  of  Final  Classification  Cards  (Form  1007) 
were  produced  which  were  signed  by  a  rubber  stamp,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  this  practice  has  been  absolutely 
prohibited  by  orders  from  this  office. 

5.  With  the  pending  heavy  registration,  under  the 
changed  draft  ages,  it  becomes  vitally  imperative  that 
Local  Boards  exercise  the  most  scrupulous  care  in  the 
issuance  of  the  Final  Classification  notice,  as  such  notice 
will  constitute  the  only  direct  evidence  of  a  registrant's 
compliance  with  the  Selective  Service  Act. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  452. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  10,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:  Form  101  Inserts. 
The  following  telegram  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General 
is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  concerned: 


—  85  — 

Washington,  D.  C,  September  4,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  B  thirty  sixty.  Re  tel.  five  seventy-five.  In- 
struct Local  Boards  to  make  insert  sheets  for  Form  101 
large.     See  note  at  bottom  of  last  page  on  this  form. 

Crowder. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  453. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

H-20.  September  11,  1918. 

To  the  Chairman  of  each  Local  Board: 
''CONFIDENTIAL." 
Subject:  Government  Appeal  Agents. 

1.  This  Office  has  received  a  telegram  from  the  Provost  Mar- 
shal General,  requesting  a  report  on  the  activities  of  the 
various  Government  .Appeal  Agents,  with  the  idea  of  elimi- 
nating those  who  have  not  been  performing  their  duty  and 
providing  assistance  for  those  who  have  been  overworked. 

2.  This  report  should  be  made  to  this  Office  direct  and,  if 
deemed  advisable,  should  be  confidential  in  character  and  will 
be  so  treated. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  86  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  454. 

STATE   OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5D-17  September  11.  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

The  following  letter  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General  con- 
stitutes the  amended  S.  S.  R.,  relating  to  compensation  of 
Local  Board  members,  and  should  be  strictly  adhered  to  in 
presenting  vouchers : 

From:  Office  of  the  Provost  Marshal  General. 
To:        Draft  Executives  of  all  States. 

Subject:   Amending  Section  195,  S.  S.   K. 

Section  195,  S.  S.  R.,  as  amended,  is  hereby  further  amended 
as  follows : 

SECTION   195.      LOCAL   BOARDS.       COMPENSATION. 
A.     For  services  rendered  by  members  of  Local  Hoards  on 

and  after  September  1,  1918,  there  may  be  paid  to  each  mem- 
ber a  compensation  of  $1  per  hour  for  each  hour  that  he  is 
actually  present  at  the  office  of  the  Board  and  wholly  engaged 
in  the  duties  prescribed  by  these  regulations  for  members  of 
Local  Boards,  in  no  case  to  exceed  $10  for  any  single  day  or 
$200  for  any  single  month  (except  as  prescribed  in  paragraph 
I)  of  this  Section).  The  maximum  compensation  to  he  paid 
the  members  of  a  Board  for  any  month  shall  be  determined 
by   the  following   table  : 

Total  registration  at  beginning  <>f  month,  less  indnctions  (including 
those  of  deserters),  cancellations,  transfers,  classifications  in  (Mass  5,  ami 
dcntlis  previous  months,  and  maximum  compensation  per  month  to  be  paid 
to  Boards  of  three  or  more  members. 

1,000  or  under .$150  00 

1,000  to  1,250 175  00 

1,250  to  1,500 200  00 

1,500  to  2,000 250  00 

2,000  to  3,000 300  00 

3,000  to  4,000 375  00 

4,000  to  5,000 450  00 

r»,000  to  6,000 525  00 

0,000  to  7,000   600  00 


—  87  — 

B.  For  the  services  rendered  by  members  of  Local  Boards 
in  reclassifying*  and  inducting  men  (individually  or  collect- 
ively) and  for  other  miscellaneous  services  from  March  1  to 
June  30,  1918,  each  Board  of  three  or  more  members  may  be 
paid,  a  compensation  as  payment  in  full  for  all  services  ren- 
dered by  them  to  and  including  June  30,  1918,  the  sum  of  $3 
for  each  man  inducted  into  the  service  of  the  United  States 
and  accepted  by  the  military  authorities,  from  March  1  to 
June  30,  1918,  both  elates  inclusive,  by  the  Board  of  which 
they  are  members.  If  any  changes  have  occurred  in  the  per- 
sonnel of  a  Local  Board  during  the  period  from  March  1  to 
June  30,  1918,  members  will  be  paid  for  the  number  of  men 
inducted  during  their  membership  on  the  Board. 

C.  For  services  rendered  by  members  of  Local  Boards  dur- 
ing the  period  between  July  1, 1918,  and  August  31, 1918,  each 
Board  of  three  or  more  members  may  be  paid  a  compensation 
which  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  $3  for  each  registrant 
inducted  into  the  military  service  of  the  United  States  during 
such  period  and  accepted  by  the  military  authorities,  and  in 
addition  thereto,  thirty  cents  as  an  aggregate  compensation  to 
the  members  of  the  Board  for  each  registrant  of  the  June 
5  and  August  24,  1918,  classes,  to  whom  a  Questionnaire  shall 
have  been  mailed,  and  who  shall  have  been  finally  classified 
by  the  Board  in  accordance  with  these  regulations  during  said 
period.  If  any  changes  have  occurred  in  the  personnel  of  a 
Local  Board  during  the  period  from  July  1  to  August  31, 
1918,  members  will  be  paid  for  the  number  of  men  inducted 
or  classified  during  their  membership  on  the  Board. 

D.  Money  due  for  services  shall  be  paid  in  proportionate 
amounts  to  each  member  of  a  Local  Board  claiming  compensa- 
tion, unless  it  shall  be  requested  by  unanimous  vote  of  the 
Local  Board  that  the  money  due  shall  be  paid  in  some  other 
proportion.  In  such  cases  the  amounts  to  be  paid  shall  not 
exceed  the  following,  under: 

Subdivision  A.  Supra.  One  member,  50  per  cent  of 
the  maximum  allowance  to  the  Board;  two  members,  75 
per  cent  of  the  maximum  allowance  to  the  Board,  to  be 
distributed  between  them. 

Subdivision  B.  Supra.  One  member,  $1.50  for  each  man 
inducted;  two  members,  $2.25  for  each  man  inducted,  to 
be  distributed  between  them. 


—  88  — 

Subdivision   C.   Supra.     One  member,  $1.50    for 
man  inducted,  and  l.v-  for  each  classification;  two  mem 
bers,  $2.25  Tor  each  man  inducted  and  25^  for  each  classi- 
fication, to  be  distributed  between  them. 

E.  No  payments  shall  be  made  by  disbursing  officers  for 
the  work  performed  by  the  members  of  Local  Boards  excepl 

in  accordance  with  these  regulations,  nor  shall  any  payment 
be  made  to  a  member  of  a  Local  Board  who  shall  not  have 
rendered  bona  fide  service  to  the  Government  during  the 
period  mentioned  in  Paragraphs  "B"  and  "C." 

F.  In  lieu  of  the  certificate  concerning  services  rendered 
by  the  members  of  the  Local  Board  to  be  made  by  the  chief 
clerk  as  provided  in  Section  17  hereof,  the  chief  clerk  of  each 
Local  Board  shall  prepare  the  claims  and  vouchers  for  com- 
pensation of  members  of  Local  Boards  under  the  various  sub- 
divisions of  this  Section  and  shall  enter  thereon  a  certificate 
which  shall  be  made  on  blank  space  on  back  of  the  voucher 
and  memorandum  voucher,  Form  335,  in  the  following  form: 

Subdivision  A.  "I  hereby  certify  on  honor  that  the 
number  of  registrants  of  this  Board  for  the  first  day 
of ,  ,  (month  for  which  com- 
pensation for  services  is  claimed),   less  those   in  Claa 

was ,  and  that  the  following  changes  occurred 

during  the  month  of _:  (the  month  imme- 
diately preceding  that  for  which  compensation  for  sendees 
is  claimed). 

GAINS:    By  registration 

By  transfer 


Total 


LOSSES:    By   induction   

By  transfer 

By  death 

By  classification  in  Class  5. 
By   cancellation 


Tola  I 


—  89  — 

I  further  certify  that  the  services  herein  slated  were 
rendered  to  the  Government  of  the  United  States  as  shown 

in  the  minute  (took  of - Board. 

Date 191—. 


Chief  Clerk." 

Subdivision  B.  "I  hereby  certify  on  honor  that  the 
total  number  of  inductions  within  the  jurisdiction  of  this 
Local  Board  during  the  period  between  the  first  day  of 
March,  1918,  and  the  thirtieth  day  of  June,  1918,  (or  the 
period  between  these  dates  during  which  the  member  to 
be   compensated   rendered   services   on   the   Board)    was 

;  that of  such  registrants  have  been 

accepted  by  the  military  authorities,  and  that  during  said 
period was  a  member 

(Name) 

of  said  Local  Board  and  rendered  services  as  such  member. 
Date, 191__. 


Chief  Clerk." 

Subdivision  C.  "I  hereby  certify  that  the  number  of 
inductions  within  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Local  Board 
during  the  period  between  the  first  day  of  July,  1918,  and 
the  thirty-first  day  of  August,  (or  the  period  between 
these  dates  during  which  the  member  to  be  compensated 

rendered  services  on  the  Board)    was ;   that 

__ of  such  registrants  have  been  accepted  by  the 

military  authorities;  that  the  total  number  of  registrants 
of  the  class  of  June,  1918,  who  have  been  finally  classified 
in  accordance  with  the  Selective  Service  Regulations  dur- 
ing the  period  between  the  first  day  of  July,  1918,  and 
the  thirty-first  day  of  August,  1918,  (or  the  period  be- 
tween these  dates  during  which  the  member  to  be  com- 
pensated rendered  services  to  the  Board)  was 

I  further  certify  that  during  said  period 

was  a  member  of  said 

(Name) 

Local  Board  and  rendered  services  as  such  member,  and 
that  he  assisted  in  the  classification  of  these  registrants. 
Date, ,  1918. 


Chief  Clerk." 


—  90  — 

This  regulation  is  not  intended   to,  nor  does  it    affect   the 
compensation  of  clerks.  <>r  of  examining  physicians  who  are 
not  members  of  the  Boards,  or  of  allowances  for  other  w 
sary  expenses  as  provided  in  these  regulations,  except  as  pro 
vided  in  Note  1,  Section  190  of  these  regulations. 

E.  H.  CrowdkBj 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  455. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

12.  September  12,  1918. 

To  all  Local  and  Legal  Advisory  Boards: 

The  effective  work  done  by  the  Lawyers  in  response  to  the 
President's  request  that  the  Bar  of  California  assist  the  regis- 
trants in  the  execution  of  their  Questionnaires  was  generally 
responded  to,  but,  I  regret  to  say,  the  actual  work  was  done 
by  a  very  few  loyal  men,  who  were  responsible  for  the  whole 
scheme  not  being  a  failure. 

The  loyal  and  earnest  Lawyer  is  again  face  to  face  with  a 
task  greater  than  faced  before  and  one  that  demands  time  and 
attention  from  a  great  many  more  than  heretofore  rendered 
service. 

It  is  not  fair  that  those  members  of  the  profession  who  are 
willing  only  to  lend  their  names  should  reap  the  honor  ami 
glory  through  the  labors  of  the  few,  and  to  the  end  that  this 
may  not  be,  Legal  Advisory  Boards  are  enjoined  to  comb  out 


—  91  — 

their  list  of  Associate  Members  and  drop  all  those  who  will 
not  conform  to  the  following  scheme: 

1.  It  is  essential  that  a  compact  organization  be  at  once 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  instruction  and  discipline. 

2.  Schools  of  instruction  should  be  at  once  started,  and  no 
man  should  be  permitted  to  assist  a  registrant  until  the  Legal 
Advisory  Board  is  satisfied  that  he  has  familiarized  himself 
with  his  duties. 

3.  Schools  of  instruction  should  also  cover  problems  in 
classification,  naturalization  and  any  other  subjects  germane 
to  the  problems  to  be  met. 

There  is  still  another  way  that  members  of  the  Bar  may  be 
of  enormous  help  to"  the  Local  Boards  and  save  many  valuable 
days  for  our  Government ;  that  is  by  digesting  and  abstracting 
the  contents  of  the  questionnaires  so  that  it  will  not  be  neces- 
sary for  the  Local  Board  Members  to  scrutinize  each  page 
thereof  except  in  close  cases.  For  example,  an  abstract  such 
as  this 

"John  Smith,  aged  35  years,  citizen,  living  with  wife 
and  two  children,  no  property,  family  wholly  dependent, 
no  industrial  claim,  no  agricultural  claim,  properly  sup- 
ported by  affidavits  of  self  and  wife" 

would  enable  the  Board  to  dispose  of  his  case  at  a  glance. 

Fully  90  per  cent  of  the  Questionnaires  can  be  handled  in 
this  way.  It  is  self-evident  the  enormous  labor  that  the  Local 
Board  can  be  relieved  of  by  Legal  Advisory  Board  Members 
adopting  this  scheme. 

Local  Board  Members  and  Legal  Advisory  Board  Members 
should  at  once  get  together  to  carry  out  to  the  best  advantage 
the  above  suggestions. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  92  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  456. 

STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

C-26  September  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Insert  in  Third  Edition  Questionnaire. 

The  Provost  Marshal  General  has  instructed  the  distribu- 
tion to  all  Local  Boards  of  an  explanatory  memorandum  which 
is  to  be  inserted  in  the  Questionnaires  as  they  are  mailed. 
This  memorandum  is  now  being  mailed  in  quantities  approxi- 
mating fifty  per  cent  of  your  registration.  Additional  sup- 
plies of  this  form  will  be  forwarded  as  soon  as  received  from 
Washington  without  order  from  you. 

BY  DIRECTION  OF  THE  GOVERNOR. 

J.  J.  BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  457. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

11-20  September  13,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:   Official  Copies  of  "Registration  Rbqulattons 

No.  3." 
The  following  circular  Letter  has  been  received  from  the 
Provost  Marshal  General  and  is  quoted  for  your  information 
and  guidance: 


—  93  — 

1.  There  is  being  transmitted  to  you  today  for  distribu- 
tion among  the  Local  Boards  in  your  State  a  limited  sup- 
ply of  official  copies  of  "Registration  Regulations  No.  3." 
Except  for  the  insertion  of  dates,  the  signature  of  the 
Secretary  of  War,  and  the  changes  indicated  below,  these 
Regulations  are  the  same  as  the  advance  unofficial  copies 
heretofore  forwarded  to  you. 

2.  After  the  unofficial  copies  were  printed  and  trans- 
mitted to  you,  Section  5  of  the  law  was  changed  to  read 
as  it  appears  in  Paragraph  3  of  the  official  Regulations. 
This  required  a  change  in  paragraphs  4  and  72  in  respect 
of  the  persons  who  are  exempted  from  registration. 

3.  Section  29,  subparagraph  (&),  has  been  amended  to 
permit  the  appointment  of  registrants  residing  outside 
the  jurisdiction  of  a  Local  Board  when  it  is  impracticable 
to  obtain  the  services  of  registrars  residing  within  its 
jurisdiction. 

4.  Section  48  .  has  been  amended  to  require  the  chief 
clerk  of  every  Local  Board  to  cause  one  set  of  exact  copies 
of  all  registration  cards  to  be  made  after  the  assignment 
of  serial  numbers  instead  of  after  the  assignment  of  order 
numbers.  This  was  thought  desirable,  inasmuch  as  Dis- 
trict Boards  would  otherwise  be  in  possession  of  Question- 
naires on  appeal  before  receiving  copies  of  registration 
cards  and,  in  some  cases,  have  refused  to  consider 
Questionnaires  until  receipt  of  the  copies  of  the  regis- 
tration cards. 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 


—  94  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  458. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 
THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

H-20  September  13,  1918. 

To  nil  Local  Boards : 

Subject:  Amendments  to  Sections  151  and  157,  S.  S.  L\ 
The  following  circular  letter  has  been  received  from  the 
Provost  Marshal  General  and  is  quoted  for  your  information 

and  guidance: 

1.  In  order  to  relieve  a  registrant  in  6rea1  Britain  who  has 
attempted  to  enlist  in  the  Army  of  the  United  States  and  lias 
been  rejected  for  military  service  on  account  of  physical  dis- 
qualifications from  the  necessity  of  physical  examination  pur- 
suant to  Section  142,  S.  S.  R.,  or  from  the  obligation  to  return 
to  the  United  States  if  an  order  for  his  induction  lias  already 
been  issued  by  his  Local  Board,  the  following  addition  has 
been  made  to  Section  151  (i)  as  contained  in  my  letter  of 
August  2  to  all  Draft  Executives,  and  note  to  Section  157 
promulgated  at  the  same  time  has  been  amended  to  read  as 
follows: 

2.  Section  151,  S.  S.  R.,  is  amended  by  the  addition  to  Para- 
graph (i)  of  the  following: 

"If  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  in  Great  Britain,  who 
has  registered,  applies  for  enlistment  at  a  Recruiting 
tion  in  Great  Britain  and  is  rejected  for  military  service 
on  account  of  physical  disqualification,  thereafter  upon 
presentation  bv  such  registrant  to  his  Local  Board  of  a 
certificate  by  the  Recruiting  Officer  stating  that  the  i 
trant  applied  for  enlistment  and  was  found  physically 
disqualified  (as  the  case  inay  be)  for  military  service. 
together  with  a  copy  of  the  report  of  the  physician  who 

examined  the  applicant  for  enlistment,  such  certificate 
and  copy  of  examining  physician's  report  shall  be  tiled 
with  the  Questionnaire  and  the  registrant  shall  he  placed 

in  (Mass  V  on  the  ground  that  he  is  totally  physically 
unlit   for  military  service. " 


—  95  — 

3.  Note  1  to  Section  157  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

"When  a  Local  Board  learns  that  one  of  its  registrants 
is  in  Great  Britain  or  France,  it  shall,  when  issuing  his 
induction  order  (Form  1028)  place  the  date  of  reporting 
so  far  ahead  that  the  registrant  will  have  time  to  apply 
for  enlistment  voluntarily  with  the  American  Expedi- 
tionary Forces.  After  a  reasonable  time,  a  Local  Board 
should  receive  either  a  certificate  indicating  that  the 
registrant  has  so  enlisted  or  a  certificate  and  report  of 
physical  examination  showing  that  the  registrant  has  been 
rejected  by  the  recruiting  officer  as  physically  unfit  for 
military  service.  If  such  certificate  of  enlistment  or  such 
certificate  and  report  of  physical  disqualification  is  not 
received  within  a  reasonable  time,  the  Local  Board  shall 
report  the  registrant  to  The  Adjutant  General  of  the 
Army  on  Form  1018  in  the  usual  manner.  If  such  cer- 
tificate of  enlistment  or  such  certificate  and  report  of 
physical  disqualification  is  received,  the  registrant  shall 
be  classified  in  Class  V  whether  or  not  the  date  specified 
in  Form  1028  had  passed  at  the  time  of  the  receipt  of 
the  certificate  of  enlistment  or  the  certificate  and  report  of 
physical   disqualification. ' ' 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 
The  Adjutant  General. 

Circular  Letter  No.  459. 

STATE  OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-25  September  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:   Serial  Numbers  and  Duplicate  Eegistration 

Cards. 
1.  Attention  of  Local  Boards  is  directed  to  the  fact  that 
they  should  serially  number  their  Registration  cards  at  the 


—  96  — 

earliest  possible  moment.  Note  that  the  Serial  Numbers  are 
issued  by  the  Local  Boards  for  registrants  of  September  12, 
1918. 

2.  Local  Boards  are  also  directed  to  forward  the  duplicate 
copies  of  Registration  cards  direct  to  the  District  Boards 
instead  of  forwarding  them  through  this  office. 


By  direction  op  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G. 
The  Adjutant  General. 


(Circular  Letters  Nos  460  and  461  not  issued.} 


Circular  Letter  No.  462. 

STATE   OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5-25  September  14,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Separate  File  of  British  Subjects. 

1.  The  following  telegram  from  the  Provost   Marshal  Gen- 
eral is  published  for  your  information  and  guidance: 

Examine  the  Registration  Cards  of  all  persons  who 
registered  on  September  12,  1918,  and  place  in  a  separate 
file  the  Cards  of  all  British  subjects,  including  Canadians, 
whether  nondeclarants  or  declarants,  who  were  on  Sep- 
tember 12,  1918,  between  20  and  44  years  of  age,  both 
inclusive.  In  order  to  comply  with  Article  2  of  the 
Treaties  between  this  country  and  Greal  Britain  and 
Canada,  the  involuntary  induction  of  any  such  p 
shall  be  suspended  until  and  including  October  L2,  L918. 


—  97  — 

The  Registration  Cards  of  all  British  subjects,  including 
Canadians,  between  20  and  44  years  of  age,  both  inclusive, 
at  the  time  of  Registration,  who  register  after  September 
12,  19.18,  in  pursuance  of  the  President's  Proclamation 
of  August  31,  1918,  shall  be  placed  in  a  separate  file  as 
received,  and  the  involuntary  induction  of  any  persons 
shall  be  suspended  in  accordance  with  Article  2  of  said 
Treaties  for  the  period  of  30  days  after  the  respective 
dates  of  Registration,  The  statement  of  a  Registrant  on 
his  Registration  Card  that  he  is  a  subject  of  Great  Britain 
or  a  Canadian,  shall  be  sufficient  evidence  of  his  nation- 
ality unless  the  Local  Board  is  satisfied  that  such  statement 
is  untrue.  In  this  connection  attention  is  invited  to  my 
Telegram  B  1974  and  the  Amendment,  Paragraph  H, 
Section  151,  S.  S.  R.,  promulgated  therein.  When  in- 
structions are  given  to  mail  Questionnaire,  no  Question- 
naires shall  be  mailed  to  British  subjects,  including  Cana- 
dians, whose  involuntary  induction  is  suspended  as 
above  directed  until  the  expiration  of  the  time  within 
which  any  such  person  may  be  involuntarily  inducted 
into  Military  service.  British  subjects,  including  Cana- 
dians, who  were  18  or  19  or  who  were  45  years  of  age  on 
September  12,  1918,  or  at  the  time  of  Registration,  if  they 
register  after  September  12,  1918,  are  not  covered  by  the 
terms  of  the  Treaties  between  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  and  Canada.  Such  persons  can  only  be 
involuntarily  inducted  into  the  Military  service  of  the 
United  States  provided  they  are  declarants,  that  is,  have 
taken  out  their  first  papers  in  this  country.  If  they  are 
declarants  they  do  not  enjoy  the  privileges  of  enlisting  or 
enrolling  or  leaving  the  United  States  for  the  purpose  of 
enlisting  or  enrolling  in  the  Military  forces  of  their  own 
country. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

J.   J.   BORREE, 

Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 

The  Adjutant  General. 


—  98  — 
Circular  Letter  No.  463. 

STATE    OF   CALIFORNIA 

THE  ADJUTANT   GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

H-25  September  16,  1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Tourist  Accommodations. 
The   following  Circular  Letter  from  the   Provost   Marshal 
General  is  quoted  for  your  information  and  guidance  : 

1.  The  following  letter  has  just  been  received  from  the 
United  States  Railroad  Administration  and  is  published  for 
yctir  information,  and  with  the  request  that  it  be  bulletinized 
to  all  Local   Boards  affected  thereby: 

"I  am  in  receipt  of  information  from  the  Southern 
Railway  that  they  are  experiencing  some  trouble  on  ac- 
count of  the  Local  Boards  in  the  East  routing  small 
detachments  of  drafted  men  from  their  Eastern  home 
stations  to  P't.  Oglethorpe,  ('amp  Forrest  and  Chattanooga 
via  the  following  route  south  of  Washington: 

Southern  R\*. — Lynchburg. 

X.  &  \fr.— Bristol. 

Southern  Ry. — Chattanooga, 
and  it  appears  that  they  are  also  furnished  with  Govern- 
ment request  for  a  tourist  berth  from  Washington  t;> 
Chattanooga  via  the  Southern  Ry.  The  only  tourist  car 
that  is  operated  through  the  Southeast  is  via  the  Southern 
Ry.  to  San  Francisco  through  Atlanta  and  New  Orleans, 
and  this  tourist  sleeper  leaves  Washington  at  '■)  :4o  P.M., 
on  Southern  Ry.  Train  No.  29, 

I  would  thank  you  to  handle  this  matter  with  your 
representatives   in   the    Fast,  calling   their  attention   to  the 

fact  that  the  Issuance  of  a  Government  order  for  a  tourist 

section    is  of   no  value  to  the  drafted   men    for  the   reason 


—  99  — 

stated  above  and  that  if  it  is  desired  that  the  man  have 
a  berth  please  issue  the  Government  order  for  a  berth  in 
the  standard  sleeper. 

Your  eo-cperation  in  this  matter  will  be  appreciated." 

E.  H.  Crowder, 
Provost  Marshal  General. 


By  direction  of  the  Governor. 


J.  J.  Borree, 
Brigadier  General,  N.  G.  C, 

The  Adjutant  General. 


Circular  Letter  No.  464. 

STATE    OF    CALIFORNIA 

THE   ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE 

SACRAMENTO 

5D-17  September  16.   1918. 

To  all  Local  Boards: 

Subject:    Basis  of  Allowance  for  Clerk  Hire. 
The  following  telegram  from  the  Provost  Marshal  General 
is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  eoncerned : 

Washington,  D.  C,  September  13,  1918. 

Adjutant  General, 

Sacramento,  California. 

Number  C  four  forty.  Reference  New  Regulations 
concerning  total  Registrations.  Each  Local  Board  as  it 
stands  October  first,  nineteen  eighteen,  less  all  deductions 
including  those  of  deserters,  transfers,  deaths,  and  classi- 
fications in  Class  Five,  during  previous  months,  will  be 
used  as  basis  for  compensation  of  allowance  for  pay  of 
Local  Board  members  and  clerks  for  the  months  of  Sep- 
tember and  October. 

Crowder. 


—  100  — 

This  telegram  has  reference  to  our  Circular  Letter  No.  447. 
forwarded  to  all  Local  Boards  some  d;iys  ago,  which  Letter 
gave  the  basis  of  allowance  for  Clerk  Hire. 

Under  tne  New  Regulations  a  certain  specific  sum  will  be 
allowed  for  Clerk  Hire,  said  sum  to  be  on  the  basis  of  tin- 
registration  as  it  stands  from  mouth  to  mouth.  The  amount 
allowed  is: 

For  a  registration  of  1400  and  under,  $100;  rising  gradually 
to  10,000  registrants,  for  which  a  total  of  $415  is  allowed,  and 
so  on  in  proportion. 

Under  the  New  Regulations  it  will  not  be  possible  to  pay 
Clerks  oftener  than  once  a  month,  as  the  registration  nrasl  be 
furnished  with  the  vouchers. 

The  former  Regulations  in  relation  to  Authorizations  for 
Clerk  Hire  are  abrogated.  Please  study  Circular  No.  447.  and 
in  presenting  vouchers  for  clerks  be  guided  thereby. 

By  direction  of  the  Governor. 

j.  j.  borree, 
Brigadier  General.  N.  (i.  ('.. 
The  Adjutant   General. 


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SUPPLEMENTAL  INDEX. 


APPEAL  AGENTS.  Circular  number 

Capabilities 4.13 

ADVISORY   COUNCIL  DISTRICT  BOARDS. 

Formation 405 

BOARDS. 

Legal   Advisory    455 

Local    ,. 441£,   450 

Members    430 

Instruction 432 

Advisory    405 

Medical    44G,  448.  407 

BRASSARDS. 

Supplied 425 

BRITISH   SUBJECTS. 

Instructions    402 

BOARDS  OE  INSTRUCTION. 

Appointment 432 

CROWDER    (General). 

Letter  declining-  promotion   41S 

CLASSIFICATION. 

Railroad  employees 404 

Of  shipbuilders 400 

Erroneous  of  married  men 414 

Deferred    (limited  service) 480 

Final  cards 451 

CLERICAL  HIRE. 

Compensation .447, 470 

Allowance  basis 464 

Amendment 475 

Instructions    47S 

CORRESPONDENCE. 

Instructions    443 

CLERICAL  HELP. 

Preference  to  dependents  of  soldiers  and  sailors 416 

Induction  of 420 

DEPENDENCY. 

Wife    423 

DESERTERS. 

General  provisions  (amendment  140  S.S.R.) 413 

Desertion  described 417 

Prosecution 426 

DISCHARGE. 

Of  enlisted  students 405 


—  102  — 

EMERGENCY  FLEET,                                                                   circular  number 
Co-operation   extended   by   corporation 412 

ENLISTED  RESERVE  CORPS. 

Refusal  of  local  hoards  to  recognise     406 

EXTENSION  OF  DRAFT  AGE. 

Genera]  statement  401 

ENLISTMENT. 

Discharge  of  enlisted  students (05 

Of  citizens  of  F.   S.  abroad   _' 4<>7 

\aval    releases    11  v 

FILING  CASKS   (Srr  Fihmitke). 

FURNITURE. 

Filing  cases   41<> 

FORMS. 

For  registrants  abroad 4(>7 

For  deserters 113,  417 

KM    inserts ' 452 

1.  68  reserve  supply   ISO\ 

Klc  duplicates 441 

1011)  instructions 44!> 

IMMIGRATION  AND  HOUSING  COMMISSION. 

Co-operation : MB 

INDUCTED  MEN, 

Conduct  i 421) 

INSTRUCTIONS. 

To  registrants  (by  F.  C.  men) 106 

INDUCTIONS. 

Suspension    135 

Navy  and   marine  rorps 47(5 

Instructions 479 

Subjects  neutral  countries 

Clerical   help ISO 

LEGAL  ADVISORY  HOARDS. 

Schools    of    instruction C>~> 

LOCAL    FOARD. 

Loss   of   medical    examiners do 

Compensation  4.'i<;.  441 ) 

MEDICAL 

Examiners i  •  I 

Volunteer    medical    service    corps \t'>'-> 

Remediable  defectives 4:i7.  444.  146,  cv.J. 

Mental  defectives  «8 

Advisory    446,  lis.  U>~ 

Examining   physicians   142 

Physicians  class  I.  group  C 474 

Physical    examinations    182 

MEDICAL  ADVISORY. 

Impending  draft    140 

Jurisdiction  transfer 11s 

Personnel  of  examiners 467 


—  103  — 

MENTAL  DEFECTIVES.  circular  i.unu,.w 

Information 439 

MEDICAL  EXAMINERS. 

Conference 471 

MILITARY  AND  NAVAL  SERVICE. 

Inelusiveness  of  term 4ir> 

MARRIED  MEN. 

Erroneous  classification  of 414 

MARINERS. 

Classification    of    411 

MEAL  TICKETS. 

Allowance : 430 

XEUTRAL  COUNTRIES. 

Subjects  of 403 

Changes  No.  8 427 

NECTRAL    DECLARANTS. 

Changes  No.  6,  S.  S.  R 427 

NAVAL  OFFICERS. 

Enlistment  releases 418^ 

OCCUPATIONAL  CARDS. 

Differentiation    431 

Cancellation,  reissuing 434 

OCTOBER  CALLS. 

Instructions    440 

PHYSICIANS. 

Examining . 442 

PHYSICAL    EXAMINATION. 

Instructions 482 

PHYSICIANS    IN   CLASS    1.   GROUP  C. 

1010  report 474 

PUBLIC  HEALTH  SERVICE. 

Amendment    S.   S.    R 415 

PILOT. 

Deferred  elassification  of — on   Great  Lakes 411 

PASSPORT  PERMITS. 

Instructions 468,  47.*  5 

QUESTIONNAIRES. 

August    24.    1018 428 

.'Jil   addition   insert 456 

REMEDIABLE   DEFECTIVES. 

Instructions 437 

Supplementary 444.  445,  453^ 

RAILROAD  EMPLOYEES. 

Classification    of 404 

REGISTRANTS. 

Instructions  to 408 

Intending  to  evade  service 417 


—  104  — 

REGISTRATION  AND  DRAFT.  Circular  number 

General  statement  on  extension  of  ages #01 

Cards    (instructions)    : 47l' 

Regulation  No.  2  (changes) r.7 

September,    11)18  

SELECTED  MEN. 

Expenses  421 

SERIAL  NUMBERS. 

Instructions    4.": 

S.  S.  R. 

Amendments    to    151   and   157 

Amendments  to  78  and  70 411.  415 

Amendments  to  140.  deserters 413 

Amendments  to  77 * . 42 1 

Amendments  to  105 •_.      \:>  i 

Amendments  to  151  and  157 

Rescinds  section  51.  substitutes  140 117 

STUDENTS  ARMY  TRAINING  CORPS. 

Instructions 174o.    177 

Discharge  of  enlisted : * 405 

TRANSPORTATION. 

Requests     . 43S 

[rregular L22 

TOURISTS  car. 

Accommodations    lr':,> 

VOLUNTEER  MEDICAL  SERVICE  CORPS. 

Instruction    

WORK   OR   FIGHT. 

Fundamentals  outlined 102 


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